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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...names were not to stick very long to this newest subject of the Tsar; he was to answer to Soso, Koba, David, Nijeradze, Chijikov and Ivanovich until at length he acquired the pseudonym of Stalin, Man of Steel...
Officers of Samaria, outbound from a northwestern British port, thanked the Lord for a larger favor when, in fog that cut visibility to a ship's length, their vessel grazed one of the incoming transports so closely that lifeboats were sheared from their davits...
Gulliver's Travels (Paramount). First and best full-length color cartoon was Walt Disney's Snow White. For a while it looked as if it would be the last unless No. 1 Movie Cartoonist Disney made another. But No. 2 Movie Cartoonist Max Fleischer had his own ideas about that. Eighteen months ago, he decided to challenge Snow White by making a full-length cartoon of his own, Gulliver's Travels. According to the publicity from Miami, he had 678 artists at his Florida studio, who turned out 665,280 drawings, used up 16 tons of paper...
...question by TNEC Chairman O'Mahoney gave Harold Stanley the opening he was waiting for. With the air of a man starting a lecture, Mr. Stanley sounded off: ". . . The question of competitive bidding is a subject which I would like to go into and talk about at length...