Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collectors, studying this week's small show with restrained excitement, found that Julian Levi's most effective subject is still the fringe of the sea and the desolation of marine marshlands. "Outstanding was Red Dory (see cut), a haunting strip of beach featuring the crazy profiles of salt-soaked wood forms, two laboring human, figures, three gasping, landlocked boats...
...gold-gilt Ensigns). Most of the boys took practical advantage of the situation immediately. J. Morgan Dester appeared at the next muster in full regalia with all his stripes and complete allowance of brass fully displayed. Felix Locke reputedly spent the afternoon on the docks, looking for a little salt spray on his uniform no doubt, while others, following Lt. Beckham's subtle advice, got their saltiness directly from Cowie Hall. "Pop" Kellogg was walking down the street with a copy of Navy Regs in hand, memorizing that article on saluting in case any unwary Apprentice Seaman or above should...
Such examples of plain commonsense and good storytelling may be credited in part to the script (by Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...
...Belle, made his first visit in 15 years to his birthplace - the city of Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine. There he was welcomed by Madame Henriette, fiftyish, manager of his late father's dry-goods store; she had somehow kept the shop out of Nazi clutches, courted death to salt away the war-year profits, handed over to astounded Willy Wyler $4,000 in French francs...
...offer to talk turkey came from Big Steel's President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...