Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton (as it probably was) [TIME, Sept. 17], then Iwo Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts out for the kind of honor that is not vitiated by the artificial codes of caste-conscious military gentlemen. RUDOLPH FIEHLER Magnolia...
Before World War II, the U.S. Army began experimenting with water culture at isolated outposts such as Wake Island, later carried the experiments on at Ascension Island and Iwo Jima. In 1946, it started hydroponic installations for U.S. occupation forces in Japan, where tillable soil is scarce. The farms are run by a peppery, 58-year-old horticulturist named Kendrick Blodgett, who has been growing vegetables out of water and chemicals for 15 years...
...Missouri's Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the battleship Missouri. The "Big Mo," as the ship came to be called, displaced 45,000 tons, had a top speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...
With his new Beverly Hills real-estate business a going concern, former Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey looked around for another investment, teamed up with Cinemactor John (Sands of Iwo Jima) Wayne and Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry for some wildcat oil drilling in New Mexico's San Juan Basin...
Like other recent war films (Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima), Halls of Montezuma concentrates on a single platoon, this time headed by an ex-schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove...