Word: run
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffman was nibbling at a problem which many economists feel will inevitably scuttle the value of any economic aid we send to Europe, at least on a short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
...form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...
Across such a battleground run waves of defeat and triumph. Whole populations of thriving creatures suddenly disappear and are replaced by new ones. Small, humble organisms, which have been living a hunted existence, turn belligerent and dominate the field...
When the new $44.4 million credit is drawn on, Henry Kaiser's various enterprises, according to his books, will owe the Government $186.6 million. He still owes $88.2 million on his Fontana, Calif, steel plant and $54 million on Permanente Metals, Willow Run and the Ironton (Utah) blast furnace. To date, Kaiser has paid off a total of $70.1 million on Government loans and credits, and he has paid another $41 million to the U.S. in rents and interest. Kaiser said he has also poured $108 million in earnings and private loans into improving and expanding his plants...
...make it a caricature of a Bogart film. Wearing his old trench coat and mouthing a cigarette. Bogart returns to Tokyo after the war to start a small freight airline backed by a blank-faced racketeer (oldtime silent Cinemactor Sessue Hayakawa). By the time the comic-book plot has run its course, Bogart has saved his ex-wife (Florence Marly) from exposure as a Tokyo Rose, stopped the infiltration of war criminals, and rescued his small daughter from Hayakawa...