Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snub China because the Russians, not at war with Japan, did not want to take part in discussions on the Far East. But probably most of the trouble was a vast and inexcusable neglect. In China, it used to be said of General Hsiung: "He can ride with the whirlwind and direct the storm." With Washington's chill and ominous calm, he could last week ride no longer...
...columnist Slezak and bride tour Europe on a sort of official honeymoon, with newshawk Cary watchfully in tow. In no time at all countries begin to fall, and with them the plausibility of the film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story, and the resulting hodge-podge swings from laughter to laments with unnerving rapidity...
Chief reason for the September boom was a whirlwind campaign by the motion-picture industry. Hollywood went bond selling as only Hollywood can-with publicity, stunts, and pretty girls. No. 1 bond-seller was Paramount's limpid-eyed Dorothy Lamour, who left her sarong in Hollywood and knocked them dead in street clothes. Dotty got off to an early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit...
Smiling, hustling Henry Doorly had himself demonstrated how. In the World-Herald he put on a whirlwind drive to make all Nebraska scrap-conscious. In full-page advertisements, the newspaper trumpeted the campaign, treated it liberally in its news columns. There were prizes for those bringing in the most scrap; every movie theater in the State had at least one scrap matinee. On public golf courses and tennis courts, scrap paid greens and court fees; there were scrap trap shoots and scrap horseshoe meets. Airplanes made surveys of scrap piles, dropped leaflets to farmers. Worshippers brought scrap to churches, children...
...impose any appreciable tax on the $35,000,000,000 increase in the earnings of labor since 1939. The wind has been sown, and Judge Rosenman has a man-sized job ahead of him if labor and management and the whole war effort are not all to reap the whirlwind...