Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actress, Paula (Miss Garson), picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life as an aristocrat, becomes an industrial tycoon...
Thereafter, the film resolves itself into the problem of whether Rainier or Smithy will come out on top. Hilton's novel is ramblingly and trickily told. The film tells the story more straightforwardly, makes up in charm what it loses in surprise...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
...weekdays, many people save their cars and tires, but they save for pleasure: for weekend trips to Longacres racetrack (twelve miles away), Mount Rainier National Park (100 miles), the British Columbia trout country (490 miles). Gambling is so heavy and widespread that violent protests recently came from a man who is no long-nosed reformer: young Pete Terzick, editor for the Lumber & Sawmill Workers' Union paper...
...rocky, grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes in the Baker-Rainier-Hood chain and sit tight...