Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
Such tastes make for publicity, and the U. S. press has faithfully reported Lily Pons's comings & goings, her decorations and honors. She is a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, holds Belgium's Order of the Crown, the Gold Medal of the City Paris, a certificate as honorary consul of Cannes, an honorary inspectorship in the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles. Three flowers, a South American race horse, a restaurant, a Boston & Maine locomotive and a New Jersey Central streamlined train have been named for her. Los Angeles and Norwalk, Conn. have celebrated Lily Pons days...
...defense jobs face U. S. civilians: 1) production of arms, 2) production of trained men to make and service those arms. Last fortnight Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen told industrialists that the first job was lagging. Last week U. S. vocational teachers, gathered at a convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco, heard that the second job was going better...
...curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...