Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain. Last week in the House of Commons Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood laboriously reviewed the war record of the Royal Air Force to date: it flew 1,000,000 miles of reconnaissance and patrol, escorted 100 convoys, sighted submarines on 72 occasions, attacked 34 times, made 1,000-mile flights at high altitudes. In cold figures such as Sir Kingsley cited, the R. A. F. last week had about 6,000 trained pilots, about 3,000 first-line planes. But it had, as well, spirit, ingenuity, determination, and a new plan...
Included are many of the properties used in the technicolor film, produced last year, including a hand-painted rubber shovel used in the graveyard murder scene, a balsa wood cane used in a fight sequence, Injun Joe's wig, and one of Bocky Thatcher's costumes...
...were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time...
...telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When Horace stopped the first week, Grauer called into the telephone of Frank J. Drouin, a wood carver of Andover, Mass.: "Sonny, get your father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present...
...this week. To each U. S. correspondent Hore-Belisha was introduced separately by amiable Novelist Ian Hay, public relations counsel for the War Office, to each he said a few pleasant words. Then on to the Air Ministry the newsmen trooped, took tea and whiskey with Sir Kingsley Wood while pretty girl-members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force offered cakes and sherry...