Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlie Chaplin's satire on Hitler, The Great Dictator, which they showed "four or five times for a bunch of Japanese officers and they all had a big laugh out of it." Their favorite picture was 1,000,000 B.C. ("It showed the white man in a rather low state of life. They sit tearing at bones and acting like animals...
...stout Jap resistance, particularly around Shortland Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...
...Hollywood standards these Mexican films look crude, but as products of Mexico's infant film industry they show surprising workmanship and an encouraging resistance to Hollywood. Despite low budgets (average picture cost: $25,000), Mexican films are popular throughout Latin America. Twenty-seven producing companies last year turned out 80 pictures. Cantinflas probably has been the biggest single stimulus to this boom...
...fall drastically in peacetime, the road may find itself in worse shape than if the ICC plan had been followed to the letter. But this week Wall Streeters figured the Young plan was going through-in heavy trading the junior bonds hit $80 each v. last year's low...
Students who get low scores in the physical exams are advised to work out in Lupien's class, where they have the advantage of apparatus to go through even more thorough drill. From 20 to 40 men, not all command performers, come to each of his classes...