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...Canadian Government was delighted. But it was less interested in the opening of new gold mines than in the possibility of increased postwar employment in the gold fields. In the peak year (1941), 33,500 men worked in the Dominion's gold mines. Said Deputy Mines Minister Charles Camsell last week: "The gold mines will employ 67,000 men at the very minimum soon after the war ends...
...Cooper, luckily, is well qualified to keep such comic material within range of masculine bearability. Miss Wright, unluckily, has little on which to employ her charm and talent. Frank Morgan and Patricia Collinge, in supporting roles, display a veteran's generosity with laughs, and Nunnally Johnson's script establishes him more solidly than ever as one of Hollywood's surest humorists. (Typical Johnson scene: a gruesome wedding rehearsal in a small-town church...
...there has been renewed circulation ... of stories that because of my former position as president [of G.E.] ... I am opposed to reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts. I am unwilling to do that. The dissension within the organization does harm to the war production effort. Therefore, I tender herewith my resignation...
...thousands were streaming in from some of the German's best divisions. There was a good chance the reeling Germans could not stop short of the hills below Avranches (their retreat was so speedy in the last 20 miles to Avranches that they had almost no time to employ their specialty: mine sowing...
...immediate strategy of the Norman campaign still pointed southeast from Caen. Beyond it was tank country. There Monty could employ bolder tactics, for which his fast-stepping Sherman and Cromwell tanks were designed...