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...shallow to allow of much probing. But the more complicated, frustrated Doc does need-to be probed. For one thing, is he the tragic victim of a single mistake, or a weak man almost bound to fail? Playwright Inge tends to substitute mere sympathy for insight, and to employ those little touches that, though meant to be telling, are just the worn small change of domestic drama. Too often, with a dull pen, he writes on tracing paper...
...committee to study means of reducing unemployment. There were two general solutions: pump-priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) for critically needed housing, and thus re-employ hundreds of thousands of construction workers. The other solution was to let the goods pile up on shelves until prices dropped to the point where customers could buy more. But the trade associations refused to let prices follow the law of supply & demand...
...solve the growing problem of how to employ the record number of graduates now coming from the country's educational institutions, the companies reported they would survey employment policies and seek to develop closer co-operation with the colleges and universities...
...Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling...
Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George Brent sneaks into her files some data on wealthy Robert Young, who is in on the conspiracy to discourage her. The drawing room dither that follows shows everyone falling for Claudette, but nobody very happy about it. Claudette, who appears to be slumming in her farce role, allows herself...