Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday was General Robert E. Lee's birthday anniversary and ten Staunch southerners from Kirkland House didn't let it pass unnoticed...
...bargain day in U.S. radio stores. Small table radios were selling at the prewar price of $9.95. Prices of many other sets were down or ready to drop; the industry was tuning in on its first price war in about ten years...
Seldom has Hollywood been so frightened about its future. In a panicky wave of economy, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had cut its payroll 40%-wiping out one entire echelon of executives. Columbia Pictures had fired 25% of its employees, and RKO's Gower Street studio had been dark for ten days. This week the entire industry was shooting only 25 pictures. Even though the first of the year is always a low point, this was not quite half as many pictures as were under way at the same time last year...
...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...Pacific Ocean and noted in his diary that what he saw made him "so furious I could feel the blood pounding in my veins throughout my body." The U.S. Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think it's that easy why don't you come on the beach...