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...Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
...Costliest Ever. It became the costliest strike in the port's history. By the end of last week, estimates of its toll included $1 billion worth of cargo tied up, financial losses of $40 million, 90% of the 35,000 New York longshoremen off the job, 135 piers idle and 120 ships tied...
...During July the costliest flood in U.S. history swept over 2,000,000 acres around...
...Army engineers and with Red Cross headquarters, dug up accounts of previous floods from the morgue. By Saturday afternoon, when City Editor Ralph Eades gave him time off to finish the first "takes" of his TIME report, he was a walking, if tired, encyclopedia on his subject, the costliest flood in U.S. history. He had a wealth of detail, and something that one or two reporters splashing around in the rapidly rising water could not have pulled together fast enough-a broad knowledge of the flood from the time it started weeks before in central Kansas until it covered...
Flood stories are nothing new in the Midwestern flatlands, and most seasoned editors are old hands at covering them. But last week, as the crest of the area's costliest flood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) swept down the Missouri to the Mississippi, the big job for many editors was not merely to report the flood; it was to find ways to print papers in flooded plants and get them distributed...