Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the toughest trainer in the U.S. Army is a wiry little man who carries a full pack and a rifle while marching his troops across stony Oregon desert and who expects his middle-aged staff officers to be as taut-bellied as the hardiest young private. Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt breaks in new men "gently" by sleeping them in pup tents in the rain, making them swim icy Oregon rivers...
Although Harlow used only six substitutes in the Brown game, because of the excess cold, a condition which facilitates injuries, he will probably throw in a pack of subs if the occasion warrants it on Saturday, so the boys can earn their letters...
Ruby Queen cigarets have risen from 8? per package of ten to $20.* Camels have gone from 40? per pack of 20 to $200. Throughout China today it is a commonplace to find chicken selling at $20 a lb., coffee at $150 a lb., coal at $900 a ton, bread at $5 a loaf, electric light bulbs at $140 apiece, gasoline at $70 a gallon...
When a wandering photoreporter (Van Heflin) gets sucked into this cultural air pocket, seven sweethearts are after him like a pack of soprano hounds. Regina (Marsha Hunt), the stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
...even a sales price. The standard-size throwaway, 62,000 copies of which are distributed free twice a week, is not interested in World War II. Its sole interest is in telling the valley's 200,000 residents about themselves, and playing ball with valley merchants. They pack its 40 pages with advertising (including twelve solid pages of classified ads) to the exclusion of big Los Angeles merchants. The man who perfected this successful formula now has developed two more like...