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When the Second World War approached, a great problem in naval ordnance was coming with it.
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John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Steel for the Second World War was forged in L.A.’s foundries.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025
Italy later annexed it before becoming part of Yugoslavia after the Second World War.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
This year Brody, now 51, finds himself again at the center of awards attention for his performance as László Tóth, a fictional Jewish Hungarian architect trying to rebuild his life in America after the Second World War, in Brady Corbet’s monumental masterpiece The Brutalist.
—Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
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John McPhee, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Steel for the Second World War was forged in L.A.’s foundries.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025
Italy later annexed it before becoming part of Yugoslavia after the Second World War.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
This year Brody, now 51, finds himself again at the center of awards attention for his performance as László Tóth, a fictional Jewish Hungarian architect trying to rebuild his life in America after the Second World War, in Brady Corbet’s monumental masterpiece The Brutalist.
—Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
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