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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George M. Cohan's life is a healthy base for any story, and Warner Bros. have used it healthy. Old-timers melt sentimentally at the song and dance routines, that bring them back to World War I days, and the picture may even manage to convince live agers that the old boys had something. Joan Leslie provides the artistic requirements neatly, and Walter Huston and Richard Wherf do nice jobs as well. Cagney even hurdles a cane a la Cohan, and gets over it safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moviegoer | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

...strongly anti-New Deal, swung from the floor with a double-truck haymaker, telling how Hoffman, in 1940, was convicted for trying to start a fire in a non-union cleaning & dyeing plant by sending clothes in which had been hidden incendiary phosphorous pellets coated with paraffin (which would melt when heated during the cleaning process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Case of an Arsonist | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Last week Mme. Wei tossed a new idea into the ring of Far Eastern planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foreign News, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Fuel | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Burns at Mare Island | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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