Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...
...what they were up to: "We do not want to die a useless death. We cannot be indifferent. We are alarmed that this terrible menace has not been generally recognized. . . . Our fathers [mostly scientists or workers in the A-bomb development] have told us that the atom bomb can wreck the world, and we believe them...
Defeat for OPA? Having made these strategic retreats and truces, Stabilizer Bowles made his stand against the toughest enemy of all-the cotton bloc. OPA fears that the soaring price of raw cotton will wreck its low-cost clothing program. But Bowles was badly mauled by cotton patriots two months ago when he tried to put a ceiling on cotton, the only basic commodity without one. This time he tried a flank attack...
...shortage in steel threatened to wreck the automaking of Henry J. Kaiser. As a possible hedge against grave trouble, last week he leased two Government-owned aluminum plants near Spokane, Wash., the $47,630,000 Trentwood rolling mill and the $22,270,000 Mead reduction plant. The Kaiser-Frazer-Corp., and Kaiser Cargo, Inc. which did the actual leasing, will pay rentals from $458,000 the first year to $3,915,000 the fifth year...
...justified. On the inside, the surviving buildings were empty shells. Even when the fire had not burned them out, the blast had punched through the doors and windows, churning the interiors into hopeless ruin. Example: from a distance, the Nagasaki Medical School looked almost untouched; inside, it was a wreck...