Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo of meat for Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn., his starting point, with airplane parts. Transocean got its first big contract-ferrying 7,000 British immigrants to Canada (TIME, April 19)-when one of its navigators in Rome heard about the need for transportation and tipped off Nelson...
...hard selling accounts for Transocean's gross of $800,000 every month and net of $268,746 so far this year. It has also given Transocean a black mark with the Civil Aeronautics Board. CAB thinks that Transocean has stepped up its domestic and transatlantic flights to a point where it is in direct passenger competition with the hard-pressed scheduled lines. CAB will shortly hold hearings to see if Transocean should reduce its services...
Trade Taper. Despite mounting EGA shipments, U.S. exports dropped in September for the third straight month to $926,500,000, the lowest point in nearly two years, and $496,400,000 below their postwar peak. Imports were down also...
...Surface. Penman Milton Reynolds came up from the murky underwater world of ball-point pens with an eyecatching new gadget. It was a transparent plastic cigarette lighter with an oversize load of fluid-enough, he said, for 8,304 lights v. 842 for an ordinary lighter. Reynolds said that he has advance orders for 250,000 (including 50,000 for Gimbels), and that subcontractors, already producing 18,000 a day, would soon step up production to 70,000. The price, with the plastic stand and case: $5. So that customers will not associate the lighter with his much-panned...
...also believable. Before Cowpoke Robert Mitchum gets mixed up in plot, he has a friendly shooting match with the rancher's daughter (Barbara Bel Geddes). She snipes at him as he tries to ford a stream. He retaliates by shooting the heel off her boot. At some point in this exchange of lead, love blossoms...