Word: frontierisms
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...massacre, played by a topheavily male cast, whose embarrassing way of laughing at Spencer Tracy's feeblest sallies gets loonier as they get hungrier, is more than run-of-the-mill cowboys and Indians. Responsible are King Vidor's veteran directing, his earnest regard for realism in frontier history, some first-rate Technicolor photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find...
...based this assumption on four grounds: 1) that the frontier, with its free lands was gone, 2) that the rate of our population growth was slowing down, 3) that the economic plant of the nation was built if not overbuilt, and 4) that there were no new industries in sight of enough potential size to provide the basis for a new phase of prosperity...
...Better Frontiers Than Ever. In the first instance, it is not true that the passing of our western frontier means an inevitable shrinkage of our enterprise. For more than half a century our economic frontiers have been more fruitful than our geographical frontier in providing investment opportunities for savings, jobs for workers, markets for the products of our farms, and outlets for the energies and genius of the people generally. . . . And there are still millions of acres in the United States that could support from twice to ten times the number of people now settled upon them if and when...
...Turkey was "fully drawn into the orbit of Anglo-French influence," accusing Turkey of trying to swing a Near Eastern bloc against Germany. What really got on Izvestia's nerves was the report that the Turks are building a new railroad toward Erzurum, back of the Russo-Turkish frontier...
Same day the Turkish press rang with accusations that Germany was trying to push Russia into offensive action in southeastern Europe. Discussing Russia's building of fortifications in the Caucasus, on the other side of the Russo-Turkish frontier, Istanbul's Ikdam warned: "War between the Soviets and the British-French Allies might lead to exhaustion of the belligerents. Then Germany could open an offensive on her tired enemies and impose her peace-with Russia paying the bill...