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...overpopulation far beyond any possible supply of resources. But Mather countered with his belief that these countries, if given encouragement from the rest of the world, would be able to solve this difficulty. The science of economic botany, he said, "is not bankrupt in Cambridge, in Chungking, or in Calcutta...
...shipment, to the London Zoo last year, brought protests in the House of Lords. Borne out of the hills in a sedan chair, the panda was flown from Calcutta and thence to London-while 11,000 Britons waited for air transport...
...Reynolds Bombshell took off from LaGuardia Field, stopped at Gander, then crossed the Atlantic in the record time of 5 hours and 16 minutes. It landed in Paris, roared on to Cairo and Karachi, with Reynolds passing out pens at all stops. The weather information was sketchy; at Calcutta the best an airport employee could tell them about prevailing winds came from an almanac...
...Calcutta (Paramount) is a conventional, well-made melodrama about two U.S. airmen (Alan Ladd, William Eendix) who undertake to find out who killed their best friend, and why. In the course of finding out, Ladd and the dead man's sweetheart (Gail Russell) make uneasy but interested eyes at each other. There is some effective singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang...
...look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...