Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
...Some Reds are just unfortunate tools. The Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
...This resurrection of a 1925 musicomedy features ex-Chorine Anna Neagle, who rose to fame after her appearances in British films. Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...appropriation came up last summer. Aluminum men, who knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find it difficult at the moment to get all the aluminum you want when you want it, you will know that aluminum has gone off to defend your home and country...
...friendship of the New Deal. It is a good customer for his useless silver. It may, if his negotiations are successful, even become a good customer for Mexico's expropriated oil. In such delicate times, Avila Camacho, for all his hospitality to pioneering principles, would not want to incur Washington's displeasure by letting his country be exploited too fast...