Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This big (790-page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling...
...armor-plated monster (eleven feet high, seven feet wide and almost as long as a freight car) can speed 60 miles per hour to the scene of crime, riot or disaster. For use when it gets there it has every kind of equipment the ingenious inventors could think...
...Unprecedented concentrations of very heavy, semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
...Like a monster warmed by the summer sun, the Nazi stirred. Along the Russian front, from the Black Sea to Leningrad, the shape, and probable direction, of his summer thrust emerged...
...monster can live forever. Last week it was revealed that two Scottish foresters had found on the shore of the loch a huge dead thing. It was identified by experts as a basking shark, 24 ft. long. This was obviously the Loch Ness Monster, and this was obviously the monster's end. Since there were no signs of injury, it seemed most likely that it had died...