Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dream Girl, with Betty Field...
...laying out millions for Consolidated, Odium soon ruefully realized that "I could have picked up the shares for a lot less if I had waited." But he was still confident that Consolidated's 6-36 bomber would pull him into smoother air. To get the bugs out of the 6-36 and get it into production, he brought in ex-T.W.A. President La Motte T. Cohû as boss...
Rolling. Last week, Odium reported that production of the B-36 was finally rolling, and that Consolidated had made $1.5 million in the first half of 1949. For the year, Odium expects Consolidated to net from $3.5 million to $4.5 million. The Air Force, which had had to justify its choice in a series of congressional hearings (TIME, June 6 et seq.) had picked the B-36 as its No. 1 long-range bomber, and it had doubled its original order. Most of the company's $232.4 million military aircraft backlog is for the B-36 (current price...
...spirited pacing and exaggeration Director Montgomery has made the most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...
Forged Documents. Author Howe himself served in an OSS detachment doing intelligence work with G2, Seventh Army. For this reason, perhaps, his story has an air of solid authenticity when he writes of the training of agents, the forged documents, the mistakes and casualties. He is less successful when he analyzes the motives of Happy and Tiger in betraying their country...