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...pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery tar get for the Norden needle-threader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Bricks | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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