Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcome the language barrier, Gruin took Colin-Ho, his interpreter, along. They got a lift in a Chinese Army C-47, of which Gruin says "The pilot was a cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street...
...lift the curtain, Barnes picked four of the Trib's brightest and best young Rover Boys (TIME, Jan. 27). From Paris: Bureau Chief Walter Kerr, 35, who covered wartime Moscow, and Bill Attwood, 28, a World War II infantry captain. From London: Bureau Chief Ned Russell, 30, ex-U.P. man and Trib war correspondent. From New York: Editorial Writer Russell Hill, 29, who reported World War II from Tunis to Berlin...
...from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income to $12 million, more than double the previous year...
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...wish we could give them a big lift fast-without any strings or political oratory or pressure concerning their dominions and colonies. . . . Ten billion (her own choice of medium) and the lending (only if invited) of our ex-"dollar-a-year" men is this ex-isolationist's plea...