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...Moonlight in Hawaii" is nobody's picture--not the producer's, not the director's, not the actor's, not the gag-writers'; nobody's, not even the garbage man's. It's one of the cheapest, slowest, corniest, dullest pictures ever to come out of Hollywood. That's going...

Author: By J. M., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

Problem was how to get the new tonnage. Ben Fairless was put in charge of a committee of seven steelmen to figure this out, report back to 0PM this week. Cheapest, fastest and likeliest method: to add to existing mills, rather than build new ones. Two mills expected to grow much bigger are Bethlehem's 3,200,000-ton Sparrows Point mill near Baltimore and U.S. Steel's Columbia subsidiary in California, both on tidewater. Gano Dunn had figured week before that a 10,000,000-ton "horizontal" expansion would cost $1,250,000,000 and probably require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coming: 10,000,000 Tons | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man." So reported Dr. Harold George Wolff of Cornell last week to the Association of American Physicians meeting at Atlantic City. Earlier doctors, he said, prescribed whiskey freely but were finally forced to discard it for "moral and ethical considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whiskey for Pain | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...cheapest place to buy insurance is at a savings bank. But only two States (New York and Massachusetts) allow banks to sell insurance and they limit the amount. The average annual net cost of an ordinary $1,000 straight life policy at savings banks in 1938 was $2.72. Other cost figures: New York Life $8.77, Aetna $10.32, Mutual Life of N. Y. $8.56, Travelers $10.29, Home Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Bomb to the Archives | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...spindizzy can buy a ready-made car like the Hiller Comet, cheapest on the market, for $28 (engine & all). Or he may pay up to $175 for a custom-made job. But his little racer, under the rules of the newly organized American Miniature Racing Car Association, cannot be more than 24 inches long. The average miniature is 16 inches long, weighs seven pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spindizzies | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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