Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of readiness prescribed for Army aircraft prior to the attack required them to be ready for flight only after four hours' notice. ^The aircraft warning system, which was remanned about 8:30 a.m., December 7, 1941, failed during the balance of that day to furnish any reliable information of enemy aircraft returning to their carriers...
Pictorial maps, diagrams and descriptive labels point out that U.S. coastlines are reasonably safe from bombings of the Coventry type. They also point out, however, that the U.S. has a back door through the Canadian wilderness direct to the vital Minnesota iron mines which furnish the raw material for half the world's supply of steel, to the Sault Ste. Marie locks through which passes all the ore, to Niagara Falls which supplies 37% of New York's hydro electric power. Whether the U.S. can be repeatedly bombed via the back door depends on sea-lane control which...
...weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films seem far better than...
...Angeles County Defense Council is Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. He can call into almost instant action some 200,000 operatives. His force includes regular cops and 15,000 emergency deputies, Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and air-raid wardens, Red Cross doctors and nurses, an air squadron of civilian flyers, who furnish their own planes...
...files, consisting of a complete record of every one connected with the University from the President down to an occasional lecturer, furnish the bureau with the means for giving out the facts...