Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Israel's present leaders are determined that their nation will not take that path. Foremost and most determined among them is David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister, labor leader and philosopher, hardheaded, unsociable and abrupt politician, a prophet who carries...
...radio waves at all but they may be air currents or some other form of wave. All the bird needs is a receiver mechanism akin to that owned by the bat and an inherited desire to follow the impulse rather than an inherited memory of a long-traveled path...
...Reckoning. Within a couple of hours of the blast, hundreds of U.S. soldiers sped over the rickety Rhine bridge from Mannheim in the U.S. zone to bring help. They came with bulldozers to cut a path through the debris, with giant cranes to lift twisted girders off the dead and dying, with gas masks which proved invaluable when chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing...
...Manhattan after five years in gilded Hollywood, told readers of the New York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing gum, for which no more human maturity...
...independent was Independent? Ten U.S. oil companies ponied up its $10 million capital. The State Department smoothed the path to the Sheikh of Kuweit, joint owner with Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud of the Arabian desert's "neutral zone," where Independent's oil concession lies. State also passed the word that Independent was its chosen instrument for the "neutral zone" oil lands. And Arabian American Oil Co., in neighboring Saudi Arabia, was ready to let Independent use the projected 1,100-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean...