Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser lady than Joan might be unnerved by the verbal shellacking dished out to her by the Vallee scripts. Joan says she finds solace in a whacking pay check. Her income from radio and movies (prior to the $67,000 limit): about $100,000 a year...
...Naples, Messina, Taranto and Palermo and Italy's Navy serve the Germans, conveying war stuffs across the Mediterranean to North Africa (see map). German troops and fortifications guard Crete, the strongly defended shores of Greece and Yugoslavia on the Adriatic. The Germans have another strong point at Rhodes, lesser forces in the other Italian Dodecanese and the Greek islands just off Turkey. But the Mediterranean is not yet an Axis sea. The British and the Maltese still hold Malta (see cover); they still have Cyprus, Syria, Palestine and Egypt at one end of the Mediterranean, Gibraltar at the other...
...expenditures paid for now by taxation the stronger will be the future economic foundation of the country once the war is over. The Government will be faced with a smaller debt load, which in any terms will be stupendous, and the people will be burdened with a lesser weight of taxation. To tax heavily now is to gain greater economic protection for the future...
...Nations, a growing awareness of the import of the struggle in which his country is engaged. Roddy MacDowall-the young Hugh Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"--is Woolley's chief companion on his strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from portraying them all as violent, drooling, bully-boys. There is an ingeniously written part of a Gestapo officer that ranks as one of the best minor parts Hollywood has turned...
Canada's unemployed were being put to work, her manpower and womanpower mobilized and regimented, as it has been mobilized and regimented in Russia and, to a lesser extent, in Britain. The U.S. took notice. Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "Canada always seemed to be ahead of us in coming to grips with the grim requirements of war, especially on the economic front, [but] however reluctantly and haltingly, we followed the pointing of her finger...