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Then one fine sunny day the telephone rang in Russia's Athens legation. It was the Greek Press Agency, asking which Soviet vice commissar of war had just com mitted suicide. Barmine did not know the answer but he foresaw the worst...
Incidentally, some of the boys seemed to have fared differently from others Bob Foley shows up with a satisfied "hamang-eggs look on his face every morning while Reg-Com Grinaker still trudges wearily into Coeiw for a bleak, lonely breakfast every day. ("No dishes at home," says he, and the boys nod their heads knowingly...
...nearly 16 months, as other nations got ready to fly, the Aviation subcommittee of the Senate's Commerce Com mittee has hemmed & hawed over a post war air policy for the U.S. While the committee stalled, the Civil Aeronautics Board quietly held hearings on trans atlantic air routes, decided which airlines shall fly them, sent its recommendations to President Truman. He reportedly approved, but withheld an announcement, patiently waiting for the committee to make up its mind. Last week, Committee Chairman Josiah William Bailey, dis gusted with his poky legislators, said he would urge President Truman to wait...
Mystery. The War Manpower Com mission had expected that, in the three months following V-E day, 2,100,000 munitions workers alone would be laid off. Since V-E day only 330,000 workers have filed for unemployment compensation in the U.S., about one-third of the number expected. Probable explanations of the mystery: 1) many of those laid off are getting other jobs promptly; 2) some women war workers are going back to their homes; 3) men who have worked continuously for three years do not want new jobs right away...
...American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.") Under its provisions, the 28 member-companies of M.P.P.D.A. consult the Hays Office on every step in the making of a picture, from the purchase of a story idea to exhibition. If critics com plain that such prohibitions result in a childishly unrealistic portrayal of American life, cinemen reply that political censors would probably distort the picture even more...