Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known. But it is known that the Japanese are busy as beavers turning out small carriers, which the Nipponese fancy. Balancing this activity, the U.S. Navy is doing a fast job of converting Maritime Commission cargo-passenger ships into auxiliary carriers. Already in service is the first, U.S.S. Long Island. Four of her sisters, originally completed as cargo ships, will be commissioned as auxiliary carriers within six months. Two more, still abuilding, can be completed as carriers within a year. The Long Islands, which can make 17-18 knots, have room for 20 planes and are ideal for convoy duty...
...mothers crowded the little clinic. But on the ninth day came a woman "large of build and hard of countenance"-a police spy. Next day the clinic was raided. Mrs. Sanger and her sister, Mrs. Ethel Byrne, who helped her, were sentenced to 30 days on Blackwell's Island for "operating a public nuisance." Sister Ethel went on a hunger strike, was the first woman to be fed forcibly in U.S. prison history. When the case was appealed Mrs. Sanger lost, but the way was opened for physicians to give birth-control advice. After she was released she stumped...
Thanks to his sponsors, grave-faced Frederick A. Ballou Jr., head of the New England Manufacturing Jewelers & Silversmiths Association, was soon closeted with Washington's most important defensemen (see cut).* To them he described the idleness that faces 35,500 jewelry factory workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island (60,000 in the U.S.) unless the industry gets a measly 5,688 tons of copper, 1.409 tons of zinc, in 1942. Without it he saw at least two ghost towns: North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., dead center of the industry in this war as in the last. In 1918 Barney...
...Left to right: Don Nelson, Floyd Odium, Jeweler Ballou, SPAB Chairman Henry Wallace, Senator Green (D., R.I.), Governor McGrath of Rhode Island...
Although everything turns out all right (the spy ring is smashed; Brent and his blonde captive will live a better life together after the war), International Lady is more effective as a warning to Americans to beware of wealthy Long Island fifth columnists than as a creepy spy melodrama. Unintentionally funny shot: Detective Rathbone, disguised as a mustachioed butler, looking like a cross between a caricature of himself and a blond Groucho Marx...