Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal of real alliance with China, we are going to send flowers in the form of relief . . . give [them] a piece of bread, when what they want is a good hard stone to heave at the enemy." And in peacetime "we give millions for Chinese relief with . . . joy, when we will not even allow a hundred-odd Chinese a year to enter our country on an immigration quota...
...social drama, the play is gentle, perhaps slightly suggestive of the Woman's Home Companion. The cast is able, with Leatrice Joy Gilbert, the guest star doing very nicely, thank you, and a pretty lass at that. Orchids go to Ann Dere, whose fine portrayal of Katherine Markham, a difficult part, is the best performance of the play...
...Willys lost $1,862,232, in 1940 another $873,115. Then, when Army Quartermaster Corps cast about for a midget reconnaissance car, Joe Frazer saw his chance to cash in on Willys' small-car making. By sweating his engineers and production men Joe Frazer soon had the joy of seeing the Willys car became the Army standard jeep...
With an eye on the postwar world (and the jeep-conscious soldiers who will buy cars) Joe Frazer had tried-by splashy ads-to make Willys and jeep synonymous. For the first time on his jeep joy ride, Joe Frazer came a cropper. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against Willys. (The complainant was not revealed, but the complaint alleged that the jeep idea was originated by the American Bantam Car Co.) Willys was charged with misrepresentation in claiming that it created and perfected the jeep, in cooperation with the Quartermaster Corps...
...Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 18-year-old daughter of John ("Great Lover") Gilbert, leafed through her first movie script with her mother, onetime Cinemactress Leatrice Joy. Tall, brunette Leatrice (Mrs. Francis Carney since her freshman year at Stanford) said she would go on with her poetry: "It'll give me something to fall back on if acting peters...