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...seiner Angle and Florence, out of Gloucester, Mass., was about to bag a school of mackerel. The boat towed the net, buoyed and weighted, around the milling fish. Next step was to close the "purse" and haul the mackerel aboard...
...said Minister MacKinnon, Canada feels a moral obligation not to gouge her customers (chiefly Great Britain and the small nations of Europe) now, when they are starving. This was not only bigheartedness on Canada's part. In the long haul, said Jim MacKinnon, Canada would benefit by being generous. "Higher wheat prices [now] would encourage the importing countries in a hurried return to wheat production" of their own, to Canada's ultimate detriment. There was a domestic reason for the decision as well: it would hold the line against inflation...
Nevertheless, Congress was on edge to get demobilization going even faster. The public had put the heat on Congressmen, and they passed it on to the War and Navy Departments. Suddenly the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to haul in War Department officials for questioning. When Under Secretary Robert Patterson pointed out that the rate of discharges had already passed 10,000 a day, a Senator replied, "We are getting 10,000 letters...
...industry is skeptical about the pipe lines' use. At capacity, the industry estimates that Big Inch can haul oil cheaper than tankers; 16? a barrel v. 18.3?. But it doubts that Big Inch, which worked at capacity during the war, can be kept there in peace. As soon as the flow drops to two-thirds of capacity, then costs per barrel rise above that of tankers. Unless the RFC can prove differently, there may be no buyers for its $146,100,000 property. Last week it put its best sales foot forward. It cut Big Inch...
...Juan Quilligan (20th Century-Fox), a study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...