Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before young Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) is old enough to go abroad to study under the new psychologists in Vienna, he has had a thorough apprenticeship for his work. He has loved the neurotic, beautiful Cassandra Tower (Betty Field) only to have her murdered by her father (Claude Rains), his revered teacher, who in turn kills himself. Dr. Tower's papers explain why: Cassandra's mother had gone insane; Cassandra herself had shown the first signs of dementia praecox...
This radio message made the control-tower officer at New York's LaGuardia Airport jump. He was not expecting an Atlantic Clipper, to say nothing of a Pacific Clipper. But he cleared the big ship into a landing and stood by to hear how come. What he heard was not just a flight report: it was an epic...
...hangar which is known to be 30 feet high casts a 20-foot shadow, what is the height of a signal tower which casts a 70-foot shadow at the same time...
...various times the tower has supported a brass cannon for noonday salutes, wireless and television stations, an aerodynamics laboratory, a great Citroën sign, a mighty thermometer in electric lights. For years the tower's top contained the tiny apartment of its builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, pioneer steel-bridge engineer, who died...
Gustave Eiffel once said: "My tower will stand a thousand years." But the structure contains some 8,000 tons of iron. Last week rumors spread that it would be dismantled to feed Adolf Hitler's war machine...