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...Maritime Commission at a cost of better than $300,000,000. For a fillip, the yards had another $40,000,000 or more of private tankers and cargo ships under construction. To the U. S. shipbuilding industry, this added up to a $1,000.000,000 feast-the biggest in peacetime history...
...feast & famine industries, shipbuilding knows the worst extremes. Dependent on the Navy and (for most cargo vessels) on Government subsidy, it waxes fat or lean in direct ratio to Administration policy. From 1865 until World War I it piddled along on Navy contracts, built only enough merchant ships to carry 15% of U. S. foreign trade. When that war came, the "Bridge of Ships" frenzy gave it a $3,000,000,000 handout for 2,300 merchant vessels, mushroomed it to 211 yards...
When Hollywood directors tackle history, they generally dilute it almost out of existence with luke-warm plot-material and sensational pap. In contrast, the French-made movie, "Marseillaise," has happily succeeded in making the truth palatable without jazzing it up or cheapening it. The result is a feast alike for the uncritical moviegoer and the historical purist. The film makes no pretense at being complete or prophetic, but confines itself to a few brief months during 1789, the so-called "honeymoon of the Revolution," focussing interest on the adventures of a Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag...
...blurbs promise a musical feast, but what is actually offered are the more hackneyed numbers from the Verdi repertoire, indifferently performed and badly integrated with such plot as there is. Gaby Morlay's sensitive acting provides the only stable note in this flabby drama, which amounts, at best, to a tolerably exact biography...
...third year Harvard has selected its annual batch of fifteen Nieman Fellows, newspapermen from all over the country who will come to feast at its intellectual table. From the Martinis to the desert, the plan has in three years proved highly successful. Not only have many newspapermen been able to take back to their work a wider knowledge of the things they write about, but several have received better jobs as a result of their study. But aside from this, Harvard itself has learned, through these journalists' eyes, a lot about national problems that it either didn't know...