Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the Marines had killed five times as many men as they had lost. This they had done in three battles and many minor patrols. The first took place to the east of the beach head when a whole battalion of Japs tried to force the Tenaru River across a narrow spit (TIME, Sept. 28). Machine guns and tanks caught them, and 670 bodies were found in the jungle and on the sand. Later 120 more bodies washed in from the sea. The second battle came in mid-September, when the Japs tried to force Lunga Ridge...
...Major and the Minor (Ginger Rogers, Robert Benchley, Ray Milland, Diana Lynn, Raymond Roe, Frankie Thomas Jr.; TIME, Sept...
Behind the Russians in Stalingrad a two-mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
Reorganization of railroads that went bankrupt before the war boom started is going to be just as drastic as if the war boom had not happened. Such was the gist of an ICC decision last week. With only minor changes it approved the New York, New Haven & Hartford reorganization plan, slashing capitalization from $475,000,000 to $365,000,000. The drastic part of this decision was that the reorganization completely wipes out the old stockholders, although in the first eight months of this year net profits totaled $11,350,000 -$5.77 a common share...
...Veronica Lake's special talents give inappropriate energy to a somewhat vapid role. Alan Ladd is really the whole picture. With expert writing, direction and a very solid cast working to dilute him, Ladd makes Beaumont come close to the character that Hammett had in mind-an admirable, minor-league Machiavelli...