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...bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...
Danielle Darrieux retains an aristocratic air throughout her relations with valet Mason. Her scheming has a real scope, and her sardonic, unrelenting smile is very convincing. Michael Rennie, nattily attired in a Bond-tailored-to-measure suit, is the London office's special troubleshooter sent to Ankara to bust open the nasty mess. He and his Hollywood-styled henchmen, who take part in the inevitable last-reel chase, resemble Dragnet posses currently on view on television. Otherwise, settings appear authentic, and the total lightweight result is quite entertaining...
...Boom & Bust. All of Inco's production came from its famed mines near Sudbury, Ont., where the company has drilled a 396-mile spiderweb of underground tunnels fanning out through five mines. Sudbury is to nickel what Minnesota's Mesabi Range is to iron, at one time supplied more than 80% of the free world's nickel. But the credit for making it pay off goes to a pair of hardheaded metalmen with the know-how and vision to turn nickel into one of the world's most important minerals: Inco's onetime President...
...early days nickel was almost entirely a war baby, whose greatest value was for armor-piercing shells and armor plate. Inco gyrated between boom and bust, went from a $10 million profit in 1917 to an $800,000 deficit in 1921 when defense needs slacked off, and the company actually had to shut down for twelve months, Stanley and Thompson worked years to find peacetime uses for the fabulous nickel lode, helped develop heavy-duty nickel steels for dozens of products, taught businessmen new ways to use nickel in household equipment, autos, steel and other products...
...Kerensky trotting up an endless flight of palace stairs while the titles ("Minister of Navy...and of Army...and Generalissimo...Dictator...")parody his rapid rise to power. With Kerensky in power, the camera darts back and forth from his face to that of a peacock and then to a bust of Napoleon, presenting Kerensky as unequal to his rapidly increasing duties. The revolutionaries are shown, some being taken to prison and others in small groups, slowly stamping their feet. The Government's pleas for compromise are under-cut by shots of hands playing at harps. Then the Bolsheviks appear again...