Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic-age treasure hunters included old hard-rock miners and rank amateurs; three of them were women. A $5 license fee gave them the right to stake 21 claims of almost 52 acres each. All of them dreamed of claiming an area of radioactive pitchblende, and selling out for a fortune. But the man who struck it rich the first week was a canny storekeeper who sold the dreamers $4,000 worth of food and supplies in a single...
...specialists. Both the Army and the Air Force have partially broken down similar prejudices. The well-rounded officer in those services is still regarded as the ideal, but they recognize that in a technological age specialization is so valuable and so unavoidable that specialists cannot be barred from high rank...
...Werner von Barge, member of the Bonn Foreign Office legal staff, with ambassadorial rank, had served as Nazi minister to Belgium, where he helped to round up the Jews, later went to Paris as chargé d'affaires, where he did nothing to prevent the shooting of hostages. Suspended...
Oddly enough, the two castaways do not hit it off at first. Lieut. Smythe pulls rank on the corporal and calls him an "unpleasant brat"; he responds by calling her a "sourpuss." But in due course things get back to normal, and they are seen bounding along the beach clad in breezy tropical raiment and quaffing coconut milk. Unfortunately, their tropical paradise is short-lived, for a handsome R.A.F. pilot (Donald Gray) crash-lands on the island...
Island Rescue (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) has a real Venus for its leading lady. She is a goddess among cows, a triumph of scientific breeding, and she lives on the Channel island of Armorel. Since Venus is in calf by champion bull Mars of Mellowbury III, the expected progeny is of vital concern to the British Ministry of Agriculture...