Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will join 1800 returning undergraduates and 1200 special Summer School students, not to mention an approximate 1500 Army and Navy technical officers who are in Cambridge for training in physics and electronics...
...submarine menace." Mr. Cutcheon is a tall, white-haired, retired utility executive and electrical engineer. He is appalled at estimates of Allied shipping losses (around 500,000 tons a month), figures the cost of sunk ships plus cargoes as at least $2,000,000,000 a year-not to mention the damage to the Allied war effort. His figuring gave Mr. Cutcheon an idea that by now is almost an obsession: a railroad from Duluth, Minn, to Moscow, U.S.S.R. He envisions a great flow of war freight carried by rail to Alaska and Bering Strait, across the 36-mile water...
Native Land's fervent faults are the faults of propaganda. It fails to identify the violators of its civil liberties, save by implication and by frequent mention of big business. It ignores the flies in labor's own ointment, advocates militant unionism as the future guarantor of the people's civil rights, almost forgets the Administration's efforts on behalf of organized labor, and displays small interest in union means or ends beyond an economic security guaranteed by organized mass membership...
...Dayton correspondents were allowed to describe in detail a .50-caliber machine gun. Two days later, at an ordnance plant, no mention was allowed of the caliber of cartridges for these same guns. In two other plants mention of the guns' caliber became taboo...
Melvyn Douglas and Norma Shearer should have shared some of their fun with the audience. Dancing through the hearts, not to mention the pocketbooks, of the befuddled rich must have been a lot of fun; it couldn't have been as dull in life as it was in film. The featured stars didn't seem to have much trouble supporting themselves by entertaining society, but if their real life subsistence depends on the popularity of "We Were Dancing" Mr. Douglas better keep his next government job and Miss Shearer better get married...