Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said silver-haired Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. this week as he submitted to Congress the first fully documented overall report on Lend-Lease operations. In the 21 months since its beginning in March 1941, the report showed, the total value of Lend-Lease expenditures in goods and services to 30 of the United Nations was $8,233,000,000-or 13% of total U.S. war expenditures. The stream of goods to the U.S. Allies had increased month by month until October 1942, when it dropped off-presumably because of the U.S. offensive in North Africa...
...Swinton, wiped the sweat from his balding head, looked down at the soldier on the stretcher-newest patient of the "fourth portable." The boy was dirty, his eyes were closed, his chest was taped where the Major had cut out a sniper's slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before he had been patrolling the Sanananda shore in the steaming rain. Said Major Swinton: "Those...
...cats, snakes and strawberries. He is official executioner for the State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay away from bad company...
...later to achieve fame as a transatlantic pilot. His first three landings were all dead stick, but he was notably successful once he got to France. Twice he was shot down. He was credited with two German planes, came out of the war with a captaincy, the D.S.C. and Silver Star...
...scheming faces, corrupt, stupid, generous, brave and honest faces-the composite face of democracy. To make such an intangible dramatic and occasionally even tangible is no mean achievement. Director Dieterle's split-second direction is partly responsible, but chief credit goes to Actors Barrymore and Heflin. As fanatical, silver-tongued Thaddeus Stevens, Lionel Barrymore gives one of the best performances of his long career. Van Heflin's job is a brilliant tour de force. A veteran of second-rate Hollywood films (Seven Sweethearts, Grand Central Murder) and of the stage Philadelphia Story, he has his first big chance...