Word: monsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This policy, once laudable, has long since become a Frankenstein's monster...
...Army had its 1,000th movie theater opened last fortnight-at Camp Hood, Tex. To celebrate the event, Army Motion Picture Service* Director R. B. Murray was given a surprise party with a monster ceremonial cake in Washington, D.C.'s Tower Building lobby. During World War I, soldier movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...
Crucial equipment has now been diverted to Reynolds. In their rambling redbrick plant last week, workmen were frantically preparing the way for an enormous 5,000-ton hydraulic press, one of the five largest in the world, originally destined for Douglas Aircraft. By late this month the monster will be working around the clock for a score of planemakers...
...funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...
Fred Petty, the fellow who ran those monster jam sessions of the past few months, has joined forces with the Ken. The new regime starts Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Coleman Hawkins, Bill Coleman, and George Johnson's house band...