Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present price of high-grade Brazilian rubber is 60? a lb., which is not far above the cost of gathering it from the scattered wild trees of the jungle. Far Eastern plantation rubber is much cheaper. Synthetic rubber may eventually prove cheaper still. Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with...
...Pacific bases, miscellaneous Grade Bs with the NRA eagle and the motto "We Do Our Part" on the title. Movies rate just after food and mail from home in morale value...
...Asia is still a grade-B battlefront, must wait until Hitler is liquidated; 3) jungle tactics have not yet been mastered in the Southeast'Asia Theater...
...scope of its Negro personnel. > Twenty-two Negroes will be commissioned in the Naval Reserve, the firstr in the history of the Navy. Twelve will be selected from qualified enlisted men for line duty as ensigns. Ten civilians will be appointed to serve as ensigns or lieutenants (junior grade), two each in the Chaplain, Dental, Medical, Civil Engineer and Supply Corps...
Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...