Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scripted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps as self-conscious heroics, overwrought battle scenes and the women left behind or picked up along the way. (In fact, women appear only in bit parts.) The picture concentrates on an engrossing human crisis posed by the demands of the early air war's "maximum effort...
...Train fails to see, however that he and/or the clubs have no moral right to judge the merit of a person or his ability to fit into a given social situation by such artificial and worthless criteria as those of race and color. If these discriminating persons consider themselves reasonable and intellectually sound, or if they think that maintenance of their right to discriminate is an assertion of sound thinking or intellectual independence, they are deluding themselves...
...This week the House Armed Services Committee, which had listened to eight days of angry Navy attacks on the B-36, concluded: the B-36 was bought on merit alone, without the slightest trace of "dishonesty, corruption, fraud or political chicanery...
...business in 1914 as a public accountant, worked for Crucible Steel and Babcock & Wilcox before joining Big Steel's National Tube Co. in 1934 as general superintendent of the Ellwood City, Pa. plant. In 1943 he moved to the presidency of National Tube, and was awarded a Certificate of Merit by President Truman for boosting steel production during World War II. He moved over to Carnegie-Illinois as president...