Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employes who do work in shifts around the clock, often put in a 72-hour week. They shortwave 2,688 radio shows a week in 20 languages, cable spot news, features, and the texts of official speeches to 20 countries. They have 21 radio transmitters, 33 "outpost" offices abroad...
Committee members ate it up: this was good, red meat to outpost-hungry Congressmen. Frank Knox had to backtrack a little under questioning; such a scheme was not now under consideration, said he, and it was "what might be called wishful thinking...
Victory was OWI's answer. It will be printed in six languages, shipped bimonthly to all accessible parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and to U.S. territorial possessions-not to Latin America. OWI Outpost Bureau men will strive to expose as many millions of readers as possible to it. Current plans: 225,000 copies in English, 50,000 in Afrikaans, 75,000 French, 75,000 Portuguese, 40,000 Spanish, 75,000 Arabic; total, 540,000. Victory will sell for the foreign equivalent of 25?, will be doled out free to people the U.S. wants to impress...
Walter Pidgeon plays the short-tempered, sex-proof overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...