Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE real argument against featherbedding-from any point of view-is that the practice is killing off business just when struggling U.S. roads need every dollar they can get. Booms Daniel Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads: "The central issue is simply whether this industry or any industry...
The lovers kiss, and the hurricane of their emotions, assisted by a battery of wind machines, bends saplings double. She flees the convent, and to judge by all the meteorological hell that breaks loose, the earth is fleeing the solar system too. Anyway, pretty soon a couple of gypsies (Katina...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch...
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a...
Meanwhile. Rommel spent the longest day of all streaking to the front; but by the time (close to midnight) he arrived at his headquarters, nearly all of the 24 hours that he had prophetically claimed would decide the fate of Germany were over. In a mixture of egocentrism and utter...