Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censorship. Los Angeles Times Drama Editor Edwin Schallert reported that "substantially this is what [she] told me": "Really deep consideration of the issue of sex . . . has no chance to be translated onto the screen under the present system of censorship. Yet at the same time, in musicals and other lighter entertainment, you find sex exploited in an intriguing, inveigling, 'peeking' sort of way that is much more meretriciously alluring than honest dramatic studies and impressions...
Student vice here has remained basically unchanged during 300 years as a survey of the College regulations presented in this exhibit show. But nowadays punishments are lighter and the system of fines has nearly been abolished...
...Almost lost everybody on board, almost lost the tank. Higgins' tank lighter came through fine . . . and made the beach and the poor old Bureau tank lighter was out there wallowing around. Captain Cochrane came back this morning and he saw the Chief and everybody else concerned and they sent out-did' you get a copy of the dispatch...
...result of the test, BuShips changed the lighters under construction to the Higgins design. But the 1942 Truman report was blunt in its chastisement: "It is clear that the Bureau of Ships has. for reasons known only to itself, stubbornly persisted for over five years in clinging to an unseaworthy tank-lighter design...
Navy Negligence. Reviewing its original findings last week, the Committee was even more blunt: ". . . the action of the Bureau officials entrusted with the tank-lighter program was attributable either to negligence or willful misconduct.'' The Committee made clear that "the mistakes referred to in its report . . . have been corrected; that with the exception of 126 Bureau-type lighters which the Bureau of Ships says it completed because the materials had already been cut and partially fabricated, no lighters of the Bureau type were manufactured; and that all manufacturers holding contracts for Bureau-type lighters were ordered to shift...