Word: props
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From here on out, the propaganda situation in Europe looks poor. After a fine economic recovery, France is bogging down with strikes and shortages. So is Italy. There is an increasing feeling among ECA men that the only thing which can prop up fading Western European appreciation of the U. S. is more economic aid. Right now, the chances for this increased...
...aircraft builders showed 180,000 spectators a fleet of sleek new commercial planes that were well ahead of anything the U.S. has in the air or abuilding. Among the 59 new fighter and commercial planes were the world's first jet transport plane, the first turbo-prop (turbine-driven propeller) transport, and other turbo-prop transports ranging from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest land transport plane, which had been test-hopped only a fortnight ago. Crowed the London Times: "Already America...
...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...
Packards & Postcards. All through this year's recession, a big prop under the sagging economy has been the auto industry, which boasts that one out of every seven U.S. workers is in some way dependent on it. Automakers rolled out more units in August (about 650,000) than in any other month in history.* But that was not good news to dealers already having trouble selling cars...
...gone wrong, was played by Hilda Simms, a talented actress with a superbly natural stage presence. The movie, not illogically, was based on the first script, with Yordan as producer. But Anna's earthy role was turned over to Paulette Goddard, a skin-deep beauty whose chief acting prop is a flirtatious wink...