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...Oregon had a champion's string of firsts. She was the first modern battleship of basic U.S. design; the first major warship built on the West Coast (San Francisco's Union Iron Works, 1896). But her great claim to fame was that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have...
Disney himself makes no such claims. All he is trying to do is tell a clear, simple story, lightened by touches of amusement. Already produced or in the Disney works are films on such diverse subjects as teaching flush riveting to workers, Basic English (TIME, June 15), anti-tank gunnery, prostitution, food, Nazi ideology, malaria, good neighbors. He is making some 20 instruction films for the Navy; for the Army he has turned out a series of films on airplane identification, is preparing another on the Nazi invasion of Poland. For fun and good neighborliness he is turning out twelve...
...Naval Training Station graduated its first Negro gobs for World War II. Not since 1922 had the Navy taken in any Negroes. For Negroes, routine duty between wars had been in the messroom. But now well over a thousand have arrived at Great Lakes for their eight weeks of basic training. Other thousands are to follow...
Complete independence for India may not be the solution to the basic problem. But whatever the solution, it is obvious that, left to themselves, the British and Indians will never find it in time. American intervention is a vital necessity if anything is to be done to avert the now apparently inevitable disaster--American intervention not as a stooge to Britain's aims, but as an impartial arbiter, treating India as an equal, and assuring the conquered peoples of the world that the Four Freedoms are more than hollow phrases...
...ever a picture had a chance to make a name for itself as a work of art instead of a box-office phenomenon, "This Above All" was it. Two basic human themes are woven into this story of people adrift in the currents of war--love for a woman and love for a country. But with almost depressing inevitability the picture shifts the emphasis of the best-selling novel, until by the end, it is obvious that the hybrid product is more the work of Hollywood than Eric Knight...