Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies whose profits were not up, most had been tripped by special situations. Because higher wheat prices add to flour company costs (not to hedged inventory values) Pillsbury Flour Co. net for fiscal year ending May 31 dropped 56% to $990,914. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.'s six-month net fell from $2,325,526 to a thin $117,213 (because of heavy foreign losses, an $800.000 reserve set up against them and a string of unlucky pictures...
...Many a 20th-century writer has shown the influence of the movies. Two who have thus added to the vitality of contemporary writing are Malraux and Dashiell Hammett; Paul Vialar is a third. Jerome himself so inescapably suggests Cinemactor Jean Cabin that the latter must have inspired him. Rose of the Sea is rather a printed movie than a novel, and with a few passages cut would be expert and beautiful...
...Married (20th Century-Fox), whose title was changed from I Married a Nazi, owes its impact to a simple and startling idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
...London young Deodato, escaped from friarhood, seeks his lost identity, gets involved in a slummy, fancy piece of Victorian poisoning, yearns for the beautiful young woman, and exposes himself to some of the deadliest mid-19th-Century slang to be found in any 20th-century novel...
...greatest danger to the U. S. if Germany becomes mistress of the seas is inherent in the U. S.'s greatest strategic liability: South America. Caught by World War II on the point of taking a major place in world trade, "the Continent of the 20th Century" is more a half-completed duplicate than a complement of the U. S. economy. Of all her major exports, agricultural and mineral, the U. S. takes only one: coffee. Yet of the coffee production of the Brazilian plantations, the U. S. can use only 57%. The rest, if coffee raisers...