Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your bilious reviewer gives I Was a Male War Bride [TIME, Sept. 12] the full sneer treatment, but I saw a respectable audience laugh at it loudly and often...
What in hell is wrong with you? I Was a Male War Bride is the first funny picture I've seen for two years...
...problems--the unsnarling of traffic and the improvement of port facilities. The old artery from Charlestown to Chelsea had two drawbridges on route, one of which was opened 7000 times last year for an average of ten minutes each time. That drawbridge was in such poor condition that the War Department had come very near requesting the two cities involved to build a new one at their own expense. And even with such time hazards, 11 million vehicles passed over that road last year...
Before the war, rotary traffic around the subway kiosk was attempted with disastrous results. At that time, there were trolleys to cope with, and the experiment permitted two-way traffic on the avenue nearest the Coop. The end result was only more confusion, and the police, city planners, et al, went back to the method of directing traffic with the help of a traffic booth and loudspeakers...
East Asia's unrest, which World War II accentuated, would have developed even in the absence of Communism, he said, although the Communists have stepped into supply leadership...