Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goliath in Pee Wee. Once a thriving river port. Ravenswood had a population of barely 2,000 when Kaiser bought 2,500 acres of land in 1954 for a plant to process its Louisiana bauxite and supply its East Coast markets. Planned employment by 1958: 5,000. From the start. Kaiser realized that one of its biggest problems was, as one Kaiser official put it, "to prepare these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them...
...Wee Geordie. A stiff comic punch delivered by the British-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
...Wee Geordie. A stiff comic punch delivered by the British-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...
...though it seems a little tired for having been around so long, there is no apparent reason why it should not still attract large audiences. As the father, Sir John Gielgud is unrelentingly grim; as Browning, Bill Travers (in a wild change of pace from his muscle-bound Wee Geordie) is insistently romantic. The star this time is Jennifer Jones, who is pretty, not so healthy-looking as Norma Shearer, but not so convincing as Katharine Cornell...
...Wee Geordie. A stiff comic punch delivered by the British-an intoxicating mixture of Scotch and wry; with Bill Travers, Alastair Sim (TIME...