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...doubt when this colossus was first conceived it seemed the epitome of box office appeal-a Western to end all Westerns, with plentiful portions of Sex to attract most of the less bloodthirsty patrons. Tossed into this menage were a threesome of Hollywood's more expensive thespians-Jennifer Jones as a half-breed done up in some brownish makeup and a number of rather low-necked costumes; Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as a couple of millionaire ranchowner's sons, one all good, the other all bad. A flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help...
Generally regarded as a miniature Frankenstein run amok, Argentine policy quickly assumes life-size proportions when it is seen that similar pacts, always manufactured under the pressure of agricultural wealth, are being negotiated with Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile. These accords will build Argentina into a totalitarian colossus of the south and cannot help but destroy any South American attempt at a healthy state system, Definitely uneasy, but completely befuddled, the United States has alternately adopted a hot and cold policy towards Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden...
This would make Lockheed a colossus with eight plants, some 44,000 employes, and a $500,000,000 backlog of orders. The deal had more than mere bigness. It was a shrewd move by both planemakers: their products would fit together like clasped hands. Among them were the shark-bodied Constellation; the fat-bellied Constitution; the six-engined XB-36, the "flying cigar"; the Shooting Star. There would be civilian models, from four-seater personal planes to 400-passenger transports; for the Army & Navy everything from "Flying Jeeps" to four-engined jet bombers...
...cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point to determined and long-term economic measures as the only means of exerting pressure upon the six-year hegemony of Fascism in the colossus of the South...
...Navy was the first to show its blueprint to Congress. Last week it unrolled a colossus-sized plan to keep 1,079 ships (half as many again as the combined navies of Britain, France, Russia and Italy), 30% of them in service, 10% in ready reserve and 60% in a "mothball fleet." It wanted dozens of bases fanning out from the U.S. coasts into both oceans. It wanted 500,000 enlisted men and 58,000 officers (including 8,000 officers, 100,000 men in the Marine Corps). The cost was as eye-straining as the size: $5 billion next year...