Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...raising steam to win the battle of Korean supply; most of the 16 vessels will be reconditioned and possibly loaded and ready to make the 5,000-mile trip to Korea by the end of this week. Before the Senate was a bill to provide $25 million to de-mothball 134 more ships, thus quickly boost the nation's whole active merchant fleet to 1,390 vessels. This would be enough to handle the immediate needs of a localized war and leave 2,074 other mothballed merchant ships in reserve...
...Salvation Army's fourth world general (1934-39), daughter of its British founder, William Booth; in Hartsdale, N.Y. Auburn-haired "Little Eva" was born the same year as the Army. Longtime head of the Army in the U.S., she won a bitter fight with brother Bramwell Booth to make the generalship elective, was herself elected to succeed Bramwell's successor, Edward John Higgins...
Shortly after a Tommy gun cut down Sicilian Badman Salvatore Giuliano last fortnight (TIME, July 17), a British camera crew took off for Sicily to make a film about the bandit's bloody exploits. Producer Nelson Scott revealed that he had ordered the story written months ago, had patiently waited ever since for the real-life ending...
...actors only. For a generation of small fry brought up on comic books, its Technicolor is gaudy enough to bring Robert Louis Stevenson's classic to life. For adults, the film will prompt sentimental memories of their first encounter with cached doubloons and double-crossing buccaneers-and perhaps make them wonder a little that they could ever have taken it so seriously...
Producer Stanley (Champion, Home of the Brave) Kramer's film is especially notable for avoiding the slick solution and the easy out. It is not a picture in which faith-healers or master surgeons, in the last reel, make cripples walk again. Its basic theme is courage-courage in the face of utter hopelessness. It eloquently shows that cripples cannot get along with the world or themselves-and neither, for that matter, can normal people-unless they face reality and come to terms with...