Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native American enthusiasm for rescues was tried to the utmost when a flash flood marooned 21-year-old Robert M. Lee on a rock 55 yards from the bank of South Carolina's Columbia Canal. A Navy blimp was flown from Savannah, Ga. to have a go at him and failed. But after twelve hours, two daredevils with an outboard motorboat managed to snake him, safe & sound, out of the torrent of white water...
...Havilland has orders for 14 Comets from British Overseas Airways Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...
...stage, some cinemactors take an occasional fling at Broadway. Others settle for Eastern summer stock or the hopeful little theaters that spring up in & around Los Angeles. In the past two years so many have trod the boards of a high-school auditorium in La Jolla, Calif., 100 miles south of Hollywood, that it has become the nation's most star-studded summer theater...
...minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...
Rope of Sand (Paramount) is Hollywood's flowery way of describing the prohibited desert area surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...