Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producer Vinton Freedley caught her at the Paramount, introduced her to George Gershwin, for whom she sang his newly composed I Got Rhythm. She was promptly signed for Girl Crazy, in which she was an overnight smash. Hearing that she had never had a singing lesson, Gershwin begged her never to take one. She never has. She says: "I breathe when I want to"-which is usually at the precise moment when she has turned a syncopated phrase with sinuous authority. Gershwin was so delighted with her talent that during the run of Girl Crazy he often appeared...
...signature. The bill had been ordered by the President two months ago to prevent war millionaires. Far from doing that, shouted Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, "this bill sets up a new class of war millionaires-namely, so-called tax experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself, in signing the bill, was this week expected to remark on its shortcomings...
Making the prospective bases into effective outposts is no simple, inexpensive, overnight job. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week said that the U. S. will begin immediately to spend $25,000,000 on its new bases. This sum can do no more than provide haven for ships (mostly destroyers, submarines for first-line patrol), initial facilities for long-range naval flying boats and both Army and Navy land-based planes. To build and fortify an advanced fleet base would cost at least $200,000,000 (the rock-bottom estimate for doing as much at Guam...
...from being interested in spectacles and rock wool, the country (and its newspapers) became interested in nothing but defense. Arnold and his men therefore took stock of themselves. Overnight their patent quest, without changing its quarry, gave it a new name: Bottlenecks...
Month ago Pan Am put its fast new Boeing Stratoliners (land planes) on the over-water flight from Miami to Belem, Brazil, abandoning the overnight stop at Trinidad, resting overnight only at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Next week Douglas DC-35 will take over from Belem, fly 1,530 miles across country to Rio in nine hours, pausing briefly halfway at the new forest-shrouded airport at Barreiras. Abandoned will be the old two-day, 2,525-mile route along the seacoast with its overnight stop at Recife...