Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, though condemned to do no fighting, would nevertheless not release any soldiers to go back to the mines. Scandals were alleged in the ATS-a magnificent army of women who work as uniformed auxiliaries to the male army. The alleged scandals were trivial or nonexistent. More serious scandals lie in the talk of black markets and in the spectacle of people still sleeping every night in the subway...
...produce iron & steel, even a few airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
...Australian town to be hit by Japanese bombs was the northern port of Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian base...
...management into a Congressional stampede which was to draw all attention away from the Murray plan. They took the fact that New Jersey was producing at 51 per cent below capacity because the factories were not working on the second and third shift, and came out with the tremendous lie that the fault lay in the 40-hour-a-week law. If labor would work more than 40 hours a week, and if there weren't so many hours lost on strikes, then Nelson would get all the production he wanted, they said. And they got politicians...
...cannot look for an adequate war film while the battles rage: only time will give the proper perspective for another "What Price Glory?." But the movies can clarify for the public the issues that lie behind the war. Besides producing entertainment, the films can justify their existence in wartime by giving visual representation to the crisis of the conflict, by presenting facts and not fiction, even in the most romantic and melodramatic of war films...