Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
Mexico's movie industry, buoyed up by its success in Latin America, was all set to invade the big U.S. market. John Steinbeck's La Perla (The Pearl), in English and Spanish versions, was shot and cut. RKO would soon distribute it throughout the hemisphere...
Spectacularly filmed in the brilliant light of Mexico's West Coast, La Perla is the simple story of a fisherman who finds a tremendous pearl, is beset by sharpers and thieves who would do him out of it, and, discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting...
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize Novelist John P. Marquand remarked: "These are hard times for a writer to find anything to write about because the world is changing so fast that any contemporary subject is likely to be outdated by the time it is published." That didn't prevent him from writing the best-selling So Little Time. Nor does it now keep him from using the very confusions induced by a fast-changing world as the theme of his new novel, B.F.'s Daughter. It might well have been called So Little...
...Thimann came to Harvard as a lecturer in botany and in 1936 was appointed as assistant professor of Plant Physiology. In 1939, he was advanced to associate professor, a title which he still holds. During the war Thimann served as a Navy specialist in London and Pearl Harbor and was engaged in making scientific analyses of anti-submaine and naval aerial warfare...