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...cast, in its entirety, consists of Joe Masiell, who sounds, as convention demands, as if he were chanting from the bottom of a rain barrel; Mort Schuman, who comes on tousled and puppyish and is presumably available for comic relief; and Elly Stone. Miss Stone is what Variety might call a diminutive thrush. She is at pains to assure us, however, that she is mighty of spirit. In every song she gives it all she's got. In her case, this amounts to two wide eyes, a loud voice and a battery of emotional gestures that range from wringing...
...public has been the longstanding discouragement of the production of oil from coal. The government and the industry have sponsored several small liquefaction plants but have warned that no commercial liquefaction of coal will be possible before the early 1980s. The Interior Department has estimated that a $2 per barrel subsidy may be necessary to encourage the reproduction of synthetic petroleum...
This imported technology supplemented American liquefaction projects which by 1926 had proved the feasibility of producing coal from oil. In fact, early Bureau of Mines tests in commercial scale plants at Rifle, Colorado, showed that oil could be made from coal at no cost per barrel when produced in series with a steam-generated electric power plant, using its excess steam to produce gasoline, a smokeless solid fuel, and liquid fuels worth more than the cost of the raw coal itself...
...from shale. In extracting shale oil the companies are determined to distill the shale above ground, instead of underground, which is the cheaper and less environmentally--destructive method. Technologists in the Bureau of Mines have estimated that shale oil can be distilled underground for less than a dollar a barrel, but, in the words of one Justice Department lawyer, "The world oil cartel fears that the cheap production of oil from coal, or shale oil distilled underground, might bring about a reduction in price...
...Report to the Commissioner is out to break records, not always deliberately. The first pursuit takes place down Broadway and adjacent side streets when one of New York's small army of street grotesques takes off after a taxicab. This particular fellow has no legs. He has to barrel through traffic on his little wheeled platform, propelling himself with his hands and hitching onto the rear bumpers of other vehicles for extra speed. The whole notion for such a sequence would seem like the creation of some furiously cynical screenwriter sneaking a practical joke over on his producer...