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...they looked across the French border last week, the German people might have seen the crater of a new volcano. The U.S. had broadcast to the French, for whom we have "only feelings of greatest sympathy," a warning: "Listen: To all inhabitants of the occupied zone living within a two-kilometer radius [about a mile and a quarter] around the factories working for Germany, we recommend [that they] evacuate their homes. . . . The objectives which are liable to be attacked by our bombers are all factories making or repairing planes, tanks, vehicles, locomotives, firearms or chemical products." Two days later, with...
Customers get free birthday cakes for parties (11,000 in 1940), lollypops, advice on personal problems, sherbet that comes out of a tunnel operated by an electric eye or flows like lava out of a volcano, leaflets of poesy & precept called Clinton's Food For Thot...
...arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...Varengeville to the west the Commandos were more successful. They reached the shore, carried and destroyed a battery of 6-inch naval guns, which erupted on the lightening coast like a volcano. It was time for the Canadians...
Superman in the Volcano shows the wonderworker rescuing his newshen pal, Lois, from a belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists...