Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Filth. Through the super-secret hocus-pocus common to all police states, an old friend put me in touch with a member of the Paraguayan underground, an attractive girl of about 28. "Lola" (that is not her name) is a member of the Movimiento Revoludonario Febrerista, a militant, left-wing organization corresponding to Peru's APRA...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike, motorists can drive 160 miles without shifting gears. From 15 miles east of Pittsburgh to the outskirts of Harrisburg, the four-lane super-highway has no intersections, grade crossings, pedestrians, stoplights, or fixed speed limit (except in its 6.7 miles of tunnels). Going through instead of over the rugged Alleghenies, it has no miles of straightaway, no grade steeper than 3%, no curve requiring a reduction in speed...
...NACA, the U.S. Air Force and various private companies are enthusiastic about ram-jets. They think of them chiefly as power plants for guided missiles, those "uninhabited aircraft" with which warring continents might blast one another to rubble from different sides of the earth. Super-enthusiasts think they may have a peacetime future also. A speed-hungry traveler, ramjet propelled at Mach 3, may start from New York at noon and flying west would see the sun sink rapidly in the east. He'd be in Honolulu in time for breakfast the same...
Construction. The AEC tells little about its vast building program, expected to cost $1,250,000,000. The Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, with its nuclear reactor, is "well under way." Fifteen thousand workers are busy at Hanford, Wash., presumably expanding the vast plutonium works. The super-secret weapons plant and laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex. are being renovated and extended...
Griffith was hurt and astonished at the cries. By way of answer, he sank all the money he had in another super. Intolerance. The film ran 20 hours, before cutting, and undertook to prove, in four parallel stories from history, that intolerance and injustice never pay. Intolerance itself was a failure at the box office. Like his later successes (Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm and Way Down East), it perhaps only proved that Griffith would never again match The Birth of a Nation...