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...what could have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood at its most chaotic. For sheer inconsistency of character, plot, and theme, "Crossroads" will be a tough one to beat...
...unhappily, both in tonnage and use, these metals, though strategic, are all pipsqueaks compared to the basic scarce ones -steel and copper and zinc. There are still many doubters who swear that the "scarcity" of base metals is an illusion caused by wasteful use and chaotic allocation methods (TIME, Aug. 3). But so long as the U.S. war machine must have more of them than WPB can find, it cannot run at capacity...
...most chaotic and haphazard phase of the entire war manpower problem has been the training and procurement of specialists at the college level. While the plans of the armed-forces for training line officers are still uncoordinated, they at least follow the definite outlines of the reserve programs. But not even such simple directives have been worked out for procuring the much needed engineers, physicists, chemists, and men who can speak Russian and Japanese...
...final chaotic note was supplied by Vichy's sweating, white-tied Pierre Laval. He apparently took the Schutzstaffel seizures as a rebuke to him for failing to recruit the 350,000 French workers whom Hitler wanted in Germany. Pierre Laval had been able to recruit a mere 18,000, including many unskilled French Arabs. Laval was hurt by his German bosses' lack of consideration. By way of characteristically weak-chinned protest he called Vichy's Paris agent, Fernand de Brinon, back to the unhappy...
Main problem of the modern city planner, according to Planner Saarinen's philosophy, is to restore to the modern city some of that ease, convenience and organic unity that it lost when the whims of Renaissance architecture and the chaotic growth of industrialism destroyed its cellular form. But the solution of that problem is complicated. The widening of streets, laying out of parks and recreation centers, construction of parkways are merely temporary reliefs. The modern city soon outgrows them, devouring its suburban areas in a chaotic and vicious cycle. Suburban speculation leads to increased land values, increased value...