Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opened window, 16 floors above the din, was just an anonymous rectangle of light-one of thousands held by the city's glowing towers against the black sky. No one in the streets noticed the man who was silhouetted in its frame. No one saw him start his long, tumbling drop to the street...
Canadian-U.S. defense is being geared to a new peacetime concept: a coordinated arms program. For a start, Canada has plans to manufacture U.S.-type planes for both the R.C.A.F. and the U.S. Air Force. If that works out, the idea can be extended to guns (which both would make), tanks (U.S.-made), patrol craft and antisub boats (Canada-made...
Ottawa reasons that if either Canada or the U.S. goes to war, the other will inevitably be an active ally. Standardization of arms is obviously desirable. Canada would like to start the project with 1,500 to 2,000 planes, the first half for the R.C.A.F. and the second half for the U.S. With the dollars obtained from selling the planes to the U.S., Canada could pay for purchases of U.S.-produced armaments...
...plate) naming Darryl Zanuck "Man of the Year," there was no noticeable scarcity of mutation mink and diamonds among the 1,500 diners. The only damp spot in this glittering evening was the five minutes during which Georgia's Ellis Arnall got off to a belligerent start as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. He scolded Eric Johnston and brashly challenged him to a debate on monopolies and the movies; he proposed that misbehaving Hollywood figures be "banished"; to top things off, he called the guest of honor "Zarryl Danuck...
...make a new start? It is just possible, Connolly thinks-provided Mr. Shelleyblake is prepared to ditch all his responsibilities to his wife, his children, politics, Mr. Vampire-in fact, to everything except his best work...