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Virtually all Morgan stockholders were identified with the company, were ex-Morgan partners or their families until this sale. The absence of a market for the stock was doubtless a hardship to more than one upper-bracket heir...
...picture starts in Hollywood, where Joel McCrea is Sullivan, a Hollywood director who decides he hasn't seen anything of suffering and hardship, and therefore sets off as a tramp to see Life. Of course he runs into Veronica Lake and the two of them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time...
...little yellow men with a bayonet. This, again, is a concrete suggestion for gearing the colleges efficiently to the victory campaign. Though it may take a different shape finally, it points one way of eliminating the "chaos" existing in the present method of selection--a method which works great hardship on individuals as well as on the general welfare...
...Perak. They stole bicycles, food and shoes from Malayans and Chinese, went forward faster, stronger and better shod than before. They grabbed barges at Penang, skimmed the coast and tried to make landings below British positions. They climbed in the trees and dropped, like monkeys, on passing patrols. Every hardship which a hungry animal could tolerate and many an in genuity it could not conceive, they experienced and used...
...essential that our procurement be put into the highest gear at once . . . employes must make their maximum effort regardless of the long hours of hardship endured . . . production must be put on a 24-hour-a-day basis.-Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson...