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...boasts both a competent story and superb technical finish, it is the acting which places "Now, Voyager" among the year's best. Bette Davis, again playing a psychological case, cannot be topped as the unwanted daughter gnarled under the domination of a tyrannical Beacon Hill mother. Her knight in armor, Paul Henreid, keeps right up with her, however, adding a Continental touch to the picture's portion of love-making. His double-cigarette lighting trick threatens to become as imitated and obnoxious as Veronica Lake's trademark. Claude Rains. Ilka Chase, and Bonita Granville fill in the supporting roles expertly...
Pratt's game uses wooden ship models, representing most of the fleets of the world. Each ship has an exact valuation (worked out from Jane's Fighting Ships and other authoritative references) in thousands of points-so much for armor thickness, so much for fire power, speed and other characteristics. Opposing ships maneuver, and then fire at each other by a complicated system. (Airplanes, torpedoes and submarines are added factors.) Publication by Pratt of a 30-page book describing his game, in 1940, resulted in the formation of over 20 clubs about the country, whose members crawl around...
...whose capitalization is only around $3,000,000 and whose total gross in 1941 ran to $13,000,000, led in the formation of a pool of other steel fabricators to do the job. Today the pool comprises 28 companies, 31 plants, and turns put 51% of all tank armor plate made in the U.S. Equally important, the pool makes the plate of special steels which use no precious nickel...
Standard's improvisation of techniques, plus its pooling idea, is acknowledged by the War Department as one of the outstanding production jobs done during the war. Biggest shadow over the operation now is the semicompleted armor-plate mill which lumbering Carnegie-Illinois is putting up in the Chicago area. Desperate for equipment, Carnegie is casting envious eyes at machinery now used by the Stand ard pool. Question now before WPB is whether the pool has not made the new Carnegie plant superfluous...
Deep in the heart of northern California's majestic Siskiyou Mountains last week a little, freckle-faced, 109-lb. girl was doing a man-sized job for the U.S. war effort. Her name: Dorothea Reddy Moroney. Her business: mining chrome-essential in armor plate, shells and machine tools but now one of the scarcest metals...