Word: snub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Richard Ira Bong, snub-nosed, wavy-haired U.S. Ace of Aces (40 Jap planes), returned from the Southwest Pacific, where he had burned up the skies since last September, promptly set off to visit his fiancee, Marge Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., whom he plans to marry...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 21, snub-nosed veteran cinema juvenile, now a seaman at Great Lakes Naval Training Station (TIME Nov. 13); and June Home, sweet-faced cinema starlet; in a church ceremony in Los Angeles...
...shortage that threatened to be serious was cotton textiles, in spite of a surplus of raw cotton (see below). Shopwindows might display eye-catching assortments of merchandise until window-shoppers got snub-nosed: the price tags, for most people, said "touch me not." Consumers in the low-income brackets found only inadequate stocks of shabby merchandise at prices they could afford. OPA ceiling prices on cheap goods were set so low that manufacturers could not earn a profit. Thus manufacturers simply stopped making low-priced textiles, or fell back on skimping quality. Underwear production for civilians dropped...
...plot also is double-barreled, making a mystery not only of the killer but of the killed. Told in a series of flash backs narrated by snub-nosed Clifton Webb, in his first picture since 1924, it gives ample scope for a display of his suavely comical talent and puts only a slight strain on Gene Tierney's acting...
Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country's leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat flying. Lieut. General George Kenney had grounded him "because he didn't want to see me get killed." Major Bong settled down to a quiet life at gunnery school, while in Europe Lieut. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski shot down 28 planes, passing Bong's record. (Later, Gabreski was captured...