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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood moved to protect its celluloid epics from the competition of epic news from Europe. Reported Variety last week: producers now add a clause to all contracts, permitting them to cancel the premiere of any super-picture, if peace breaks out in Europe as the picture is about to have a razzle-dazzle opening...
Aerovias Braniff's request for permission to fly into the U.S. will add another problem to the Civil Aeronautics Board's crowded docket. Under the Good Neighbor policy, the U.S. cannot gracefully block a Mexican company from entering the U.S., if U.S. lines are to enjoy the right to fly into Mexico. But if Tom Braniff's Aerovias Braniff is allowed to cross the border, other U.S.-controlled Mexican companies may naturally be expected to apply for routes to the U.S. The result might be to create more lines than, potential traffic warrants...
Pollster George Gallup paused in his state-by-state sampling of the Roosevelt-Dewey chances to add up his totals to date: Roosevelt, 139 electoral votes; Dewey, 138. Gallup gave the Solid South, Massachusetts, California and Washington to Roosevelt; New York, Oregon and the Midwest (Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana) to Dewey...
...band of infuriated housewives should force Mr. Dalton [Hugh Dalton, Board of Trade president, clothing rationing boss and hence Minister in charge of corsets] into a utility corset and a pair of the best-fitting utility stockings he can buy. I would add a saucy black felt hat for which he had to pay four guineas [$16.80] and a pair of those ghastly wooden-soled shoes...
...married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends "in the sticks" to add to Pendergast's slick Kansas City machine...