Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...brief memorandum, signed by Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, ran as follows: "Unless there is great improvement in world-wide conditions, each Naval ROTC student should make plans now for active duty afloat after graduation...
...Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from financing a housing project and Charlestowners had the choice of building a potential ghost town or letting nearby Louisville, Jeffersonville, New Albany make off with the swag...
What went on in Charlestown was likely to happen in many another U. S. community. Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules...
Mexicans like their movies, but not until the last three years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz...
Arizona has all the symptoms of a spectacle. The prelude, in which the camera follows a long caravan across the mountains into the dirty, becrusted little town of Tucson, is filled with all the miscellany which Hollywood attaches to a scene to make it Big. The Tucson of 1860 is painstakingly reproduced to the smallest adobe-brick hut; the streets are crawling with extras, packed with props. Before the end there appear at one time or another 600 head of Hereford cattle, 485 horses, 1,200 ("thousands of") extras, 150 rippling, bare-skinned Papago Indians...