Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion of Italy. It is a big parallelogram of more than 9,000 square miles, nine-tenths rugged mountains, with so few harbors and such bad communications that its defense rests on isolated strong points. Cagliari is one of the Mediterranean's major naval bases, La Maddalena a minor one. There are several important airfields, such as Elmas and Monserrato, near these bases...
Like the Coast Guard team which appeared here last week, the soldiers were loaded with major league, minor league and collegiate aces. The biggest name of all, Al Roberge, former Boston Braves infielder, had a somewhat miserable day, going out meekly in his five trips to the plate...
International General Electric Co. is planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil...
...real expansion will be in Sao Paulo, which Minor describes as the fastest-growing industrial area in the world. Here I.G.E. has bought a 35-acre tract, has put Brazilian architects to work designing the first factory building unit. It is to be 500 ft. long, will cost some $2,000,000, and will be completed in 1944. In it I.G.E. will make electric motors and assemble apparatus shipped from...
...Incident often suggests the perfect minor work it might have been. Its compact story naturally fits the screen, and it is squarely in Hollywood's open-air action tradition. So much of the picture is so good that its occasionally thoughtless details are magnified. Worst example: instead of using an ordinary tree for the lynching, the picture introduces a dramatized, super-real contraption drenched beyond recognition in Little Theater lighting...