Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There apparently were enough votes to pass the silver bill (which bore the endorsement of the Army, Treasury and WPB), so Pat McCarran stayed on his feet. If he ever sat down, Administration leaders hoped to call up a bill extending RFC's borrowing authority by $5 billion (to finance war-plant expansions). But squarely blocking such hopes was the threat of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, a leader of the farm bloc, to start all over again the battle over farm-parity prices...
...Gordon. Breathless,darting Actress Gordon at her best is brilliant. Though she made her debut as Nibs in Peter Pan, no play could represent her, as actress or woman, worse. She found her roles as the gutsy young wife in Saturday's Children, the gaunt and twisted Mattie Silver in Ethan Frame, the restless, rebellious Nora of A Doll's House, the prancing, hoydenish Mrs. Pinchwife of the lewd Restoration comedy, The Country Wife. Tense, biting, almost distractingly alive, Actress Gordon would make her presence felt at the height of a hurricane...
...blues are sharply in focus in the upper layer of a photographic film, then the reds will be in focus deeper in the film. This is well known under the name of chromatic aberration. Birch-Field's novel realization is that every film thus contains a pattern of silver atoms which, in effect, registers the original colors of the object photographed...
...Silver Star. Army, 661; Navy, 117; Marines, 1; Coast Guard, 4. Sample case: Captain Nathaniel Blanton of the 19th Bombardment Group, who, leading eight planes, intercepted nine Japanese bombers and six Zero fighters over Java. He shot down the Jap flight leader and by his own leadership helped to make a perfect attack...
...Field awards, not yet reported to Washington, will greatly increase this figure. †t Most decorated U.S. citizen is Douglas Mac-Arthur: Medal of Honor, D.S.C. with Oak Leaf Cluster, D.S.M. with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star with six Oak Leaf Clusters. He won the Medal of Honor in World...