Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three de luxe passenger liners (cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing touches on designs for a new diesel-electric locomotive. Ingalls hopes to sell railroads 150 every postwar year...
Counter-Attack (Columbia) has its off moments, but they do not keep it from being an absorbing and notable picture. Its story: a Russian paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a Partisan girl (Marguerite Chapman), seeking vital data about the location of enemy troops, are trapped with eight German soldiers in the basement of a shelled factory. The two Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their...
...first time the Navy had helped out the Army at a river. In 1863 Admiral David Farragut sailed monitors, frigates and gunboats up the Mississippi, gave vital help to General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg...
...plants may reconvert before the end of the war with Germany. For roofless Britons, patiently trudging to work in their shiny trousers and shabby dresses, home-front production will give priorities to clothing, building material, household equipment. Cars, tires, refrigerators, electrical gear, machinery will get preference for the vital export markets...
...experience during the war. They insisted on a policy of regulated competition, permitting all qualified comers to pitch in and fly for the postwar trade. While no man knew how (or when) the argument would be settled, U.S. airmen did know one thing for sure: once again, in a vital matter touching on U.S. foreign policy and trade, the U.S. had been caught sucking its thumb and trying to decide what...