Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...product of the cinemilitary career of talented Gene Kelly, who before the Army gets him is a temperamental trapeze star. Private Kelly's yearning to get back in the air (in a plane) and an approaching court-martial for breach of discipline cause him to toy with Kathryn Grayson's affections in hopes that her father, his Colonel (John Boles), will transfer him to the Air Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist's adoptive family, The Flying...
...Sergei Iliushin, head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed...
Giggling Proletariat. Cinema houses stopped charging admission. At bars, all drinks were on the house. At banks, tellers gave away packs of $100 bills. Free love was freer than ever. The Mayor resigned to play with toy electric trains...
...imaginative ten-year-old set out to make a toy gun for himself by hooking two pieces of gas pipe together, he might wind up with something looking remarkably like the U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week...
...what really heartened the toy and game manufacturers was the place that WPB's Office of Civilian Supply recently assigned their $115,000,000 industry (TIME, March 1). Insisting that they "are needed for children's recreation and welfare," WPB allowed for 100% production (based on 1939 consumption) of nondurable toys, 70% for games...