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...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...
...documentary story of the U.S.A. . . . would probably distort the facts, if it should deal with our appeasement of Japan right up to the time of Pearl Harbor...
...this issue of FORTUNE is an essay on price fixing by Marriner S. Eccles. Says Eccles: "Instead of discouraging savings we need now to encourage them. Instead of encouraging consumer expenditures, we need to apply curbs on private spending whenever it threatens to encroach on defense needs or to distort prices. Instead of stimulating consumption by deficit financing, we need so far as we can to reduce the deficit and to approach a balanced budget. . . . Instead of a tax structure designed to encourage consumption, we need one that will recapture for the Government a large part of the outlays...
...quite so conclusive was the evidence that Nazi propaganda had touched off the inflammable question of the Peru-Ecuador boundary.* But to U.S. newsmen in Lima, Peruvian authorities said frankly that they were less worried about the war than they were about the way German propagandists would distort any U.S. offer to arbitrate. To Argentina the belligerents finally sent their promise to arbitrate...
...conditioned" with the exploded idea that neutral and isolated nations are safe, seem to have the cerebral cells in their thinking organ blacked out. These men seize upon Rear Admiral Land's statement that only eight ships were "reported" to be lost that sailed from American ports, distort the true significance of the words and argue that there is no need to requisition ships for aid to Britain...