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...charge of a steam crane gets drunk. The Russian foreman orders him out of the cab and climbs in himself. With very little knowledge of how the contraption will react, he begins to pull its levers, manages, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid dropping several tons of cement on his underlings. Men and Jobs is not. essentially, entertainment, but it is a striking and intelligent advertisement for the Five-Year Plan. Good shot: the Russian foreman making a speech in which he tries to explain how, after all, he and his workmen have succeeded in beating their competitor...
...trying to keep him from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief engineer, waist deep in water, sealed the patch with cement mixed-with scrap metal...
...about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from a Brazilian cement company. Alco got the order-and filled it at its Montreal plant...
...detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank vaults, of everything in fact as far from characteristically London as Hollywood could...
Seven seconds, which seemed like an eternity, was the actual launching time. Enormous chains slowed the Normandie lest she slide too far and crash into a cement wall at the other end of her basin. She did not crash. St. Nazaire went wild with joy. St. Nazaire workmen will be busy for another 18 months installing the innards of the Normandie...