Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound-recording machine which may upset the recording industry was in production last week in Manhattan. A compact affair not much bigger than a portable radio, it makes records on Cellophane tape. They are first class as to tone, and in durability, ease of production and cheapness they beat any records previously produced...
...industrialist (Sonny Tufts) who has "kicked his way up through Detroit" comes to Washington with just one job in mind: to make as many planes as possible as fast as possible. Little things like swiping a trainload cf steel on which the Navy has priority do not upset him at all. But they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search...
Minister Sir Edward Spears and London's Foreign Office filed stiff complaints with the Gaullists. British and U.S. circles long hostile to General de Gaulle charged that the recalcitrant French leader had botched things in Lebanon, possibly upset the whole balance in the Middle East...
...Hard Way. The Allied high command had launched its invasion of Italy with the hope of thwarting any major German stand below Rome. But the time table had been disrupted at Salerno. There, by General Sir Harold Alexander's admission (TIME, Nov. 1), the Germans had upset the Fifth Army's plan to sweep across the peninsula, pinch off southern Italy. Other factors had further slowed the Allied advance...
...That upset was considered to be the result of the Yanks' lack of practice, but they have been working together ever since without achieving any better results. They should come up to this game in a fighting mood though, and with this factor coupled with their weight and experience advantages, the soldier boys cannot be dismissed lightly...