Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM a war-fearful and hastily rearming England comes a vividly engrossing account of the last world conflict. Recording the struggle from purely a military standpoint, Captain Hart devotes himself mainly to a demonstration of the follies and mistakes of Allied and German generals with the attendant needless loss of life...
...feature-length films made in the world every year, Hollywood's annual 600 account for 73% of the playing time on the world's screens. U. S. domination of the world's cinema market gravely disturbs countries like Italy, where Mussolini has for years struggled to develop an industry which requires few raw materials besides talent and imagination. All Mussolini's efforts have been a flop. Italy has 2,700 theatres, which show 350 films a year. Through 1938, about 200 high-grade films were imported from the U. S. and about 50 low-grade films...
Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
...regardless of demand, even small inventories may prove excessive. Last week a few economists were claiming that such is the case now. Economics Statistics, Inc. (of Manhattan) held that soaring industrial production, following last spring's depletion of inventories, had once more over-replenished inventories-enough to account for the current slump in industrial production and stock prices...
...Rising Sun may not be quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...