Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, excellent directors must be growing on every pomegranate tree or lurking in every ash-can. This time it is Marcel Carne who has sent over a directorial masterpiece in "Port of Shadows." Casual movie-goers, who are frequently puzzled as to what a director does besides sit in a canvas chair, could well study this picture and see how direction can make a film great...
...Besides an Army, she had built a Navy of 18 warships; built a merchant marine from nothing to 112,600 tons; built the port of Gdynia on the Baltic from a town of 400 in 1923 to one of 150,000 in 1939; purchased 6,000,000 acres from large landowners to create 700,000 new farms in a broad and progressive program of land distribution...
...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...
...conning tower and let go a flight of bombs. These hit the water ahead of the submarine, which was diving. The explosions blew it back to the surface and "the nearest bomb of my second salvo was a direct hit on the submarine's port side. There was a colossal explosion and her whole stern lifted out of the water. She dived into the sea at an angle...
Blue Channel Corp. has patented its process, is still the only firm in the country packing blue crabs in sealed cans. Its factory at Port Royal, S. C. buys the crabs during the day from sleepy Negro fishermen, packs them before the next dawn-150 cases a night...