Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three and a half years in service, Yank last week got its honorable discharge. Its Manhattan HQ was emptying; its final issue (dated Dec. 28) was on the way to presses in eight countries. Its circulation, once 2.6 million in 16 editions, was down to 1.2 million and dropping fast as the Army dwindled. Two-thirds of its staff was discharged, and the rest could hardly wait...
...assets which the Government has created during the war is a group of publishing properties. These include Army publications such as Yank, Stars & Stripes, and overseas publications of the Office of War Information such as Victory...
Might not Yank, for example, be continued as a permanent publication for the regular Armed Forces? Or might it become the organ of the Veterans Administration...
...First Yank Into Tokyo (RKO-Radio) might well be subtitled First Atomic Bomb Thriller Out of Hollywood. It was originally a stock B potboiler about a vague "superbomb," just ready to be picked off the RKO assembly line when news of the atomic bomb was announced. By snipping in a quick scene in a Washington office and pasting on the newsreel clip of the first practice explosion in New Mexico, RKO beats everyone else to the neighborhood houses...
...First Yank is Major Steve Ross (Tom Neal), an Army pilot who was raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover...