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Slichter arrived at three tentative estimates of reproducible wealth outside of households in the year 1990, based on the fact that between the years 1879 and 1939, reproducible wealth increased eight-fold in this country...
...classes moyennes were organized. Small and medium businessmen, doctors, lawyers, architects, chemists, artists, writers had been loosely united ten months ago by the National Committee for Liaison and Action of the Middle Classes, which counts 7,000,000 French men & women in its fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...
...this ill wind, there was some good. It had, at least, blown many of the best directors (Frank Capra, William Wyler, Leo McCarey) out of the ranks of the independents and back into the fold of the big studios. Their talents would help in the troubled times ahead. How troubled would they...
...Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
...Gentleman emerged as a classic of hack Hollywood writing; the gags virtually bear serial numbers. Amusing no one, inflaming no one, the show did a fast fold...