Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans, unfamiliar with Chinese geography, found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold...
This shipment was packed in a trunk and taken personally to its destination by Dr. H. Simonnet, of the University of Paris, aboard the He de France on its first post-war crossing to Europe. The cost of the food was about sixty dollars, only one seventieth of the total sum spent on supplies now in transit...
Variety's high box-office scores (for April): 1) Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox); 2) Ziegfeld Follies (M-G-M); 3) The Virginian (Paramount); 4) Saratoga Trunk (Warner); 5) Road to Utopia (Paramount...
...Mood. They alternate with a white band from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Between shows, Louis bounces through the restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys to play with than a trumpet...
...Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold Killenworth to Stalin...