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...Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...monster jam session at the Bradford Sunday was too often just monstrous. Considering that the affair was a daring experiment, it was by no means a disappointment. Close to a thousand people proved beyond any doubt that there is a large audience for jazz in Boston, provided, of course, that the jazz is of a well established variety...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 2/23/1943 | See Source »

...when a disastrous hurricane screamed through the Florida Everglades, left young Donald convinced that an amphibious vehicle could have saved many lives. So he built an expensive, well-equipped machine shop on his estate, hired experienced workers, on the fourth try put a lumbering boxlike four-ton monster through its paces. With a terrible roar it clambered through mangrove swamps, crunched eight-inch trees, splashed over bayous. Donald promptly named his new machine Alligator, went to work on bigger & better models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alligators by Roebling | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...stock companies and 1,900 corporations were liquidated. In the occupied countries little businesses were either killed or incorporated into monster Reich state concerns, such as Göring's Gustloff Works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Nazi Way | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot monster which finishes a cylinder head in 49 seconds v. 300 hours the old way. The go-year-old onetime wagonmakers also produce thousands of pug-nosed military trucks, auto & truck parts, plus some hush-hush military goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: South Bend Speedster | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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