Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II, The People's Astrologer Lyndoe was so accurate in his forecasts of coming military events that the censors persuaded the editor to drop dates from hot predictions...
...exempt institutions* that the Treasury is now losing an estimated $1 billion a year in income taxes. A survey by the American Council of Education shows that about 40% of all university and college endowment funds are now invested in such private enterprises, compared to only 20% before the war...
...Master Builder. During World War II he had a peak of $150 million worth of buildings under way at one time, spent a year completing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. "Sometimes," says McShain, "there's money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City...
Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...
Though Scripter Robert Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel...