Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a thin coating of glue on the back of the book has dried, the book is "rounded" by beating with a hammer. It is then placed in a machine which presses the pages together in such a manner that the covers of the finished book will lie flush with the binding of the "spine", or back of the volume...
...question of U.S. intervention in the war rode clamorously into Congress last week on the back of the Ship Seizure Bill. The bill gave the President authority to purchase or lease some 500,000 tons of Danish, Italian, French, German, Belgian, Rumanian, Estonian and Lithuanian vessels which lie idle in U.S. harbors and throw them into the Battle of the Atlantic. In the House the bill stirred up the whole argument over convoys, interventionists called the bill "an act of war," and for the third time the German Government sent a formal protest...
...British ships for more pressing service. John Bull, however, as anxious not to lose his trade to America as he is not to lose his land to Hitler, has been singularly obstinate in retaining these routes. All the blame for poor organization of lend-lease aid does not lie on this side of the ocean...
...heard charge that appeasement sentiment is strong among tycoons, businessmen gave the lie this week. Sounding board for the nation's 35,000 top management men is FORTUNE'S Forum of Executive Opinion, and its fifth poll gave overwhelming evidence that U.S. executives want no part of Adolf Hitler or his New Order, believe their future is tied up with a British victory, see eye to eye with their old enemy Franklin Roosevelt on aid to Britain...
...Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles of Actor Barrymore. Barely submerged under these churlish exteriors lie warm old hearts which rescue true love and the mortgage in time's ticking nick...