Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French troops "reoccupied" a strategic strip of territory in the Red Sea area, establishing six garrisons there. This zone, facing the narrowest point of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, was ceded to Italy in a Franco-Italian treaty of 1935. The treaty was never ratified by France and was denounced by Italy two months ago. In Paris it was pointed out that Italy had never occupied the zone thus hinting at France's right to retake...
...climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important and become two of the most memorable personages who have ever come to life upon a strip of celluloid...
Much more than speedways for vacationing Nazis, the Autobahnen have potent military significance. Logistics experts calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...
...only are the Lone Ranger and "Hi-Yo, Silver" the inspiration for the nation's No. 1 cinema serial and a comic strip in 81 daily newspapers at home and abroad, they are licensed as trade names to 53 manufacturers of everything from banks to bubble gum. So his horse will hardly be renamed. The Ranger will have to find some other way of making children pester their mothers to switch from Silvercup to Bond bread...
...trip to the Fogg Museum where this work, in the raw, is currently being displayed, will well repay the effort. Both from a technical or purely artistic viewpoint the display is extremely interesting. There the visitor may trace the product from its almost comic-strip beginning, through the intricate build-up of background, atmosphere, and action to the final stage when it is ready for photographing. It is in this exhibit that the startling simplicity and clarity of the work is best brought out, the infinite and delicate use of detail, and the extraordinarily expressive quality of the animals...