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...those who bother to really investigate the causes of the problem, that much of our unemployment is the result of structural peculiarities in the economy caused by factor immobilities and adjustment problems in depressed or semi-depressed areas. It is not obvious at all what effect the passage of HR 9900 will have upon this type of unemployment...
...captured at Wake Island, spent the Pacific crossing reviewing plans, writing a will, cleaning his service pistol in case the mission failed and he had to kill himself. Off Oregon, the pilot had to wait a week for suitable catapulting weather. When it came, he made one 2½-hr. bombing run by daylight, a second 20 days later in the dark. Three of his bombs were duds; the fourth started a small blaze that was quickly spotted and doused by forest rangers. The raid made headlines in Japan, but Fujita got no promotion, no bonus, no glory...
...choppy ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...
...picture is too long (2 hr., 20 min.), but it is also incessantly exciting, occasionally witty (wife describes philandering husband: "He told me I was one in a million and I discovered he was telling the truth") and in its exposition of organized sadism comparatively subtle. All too often Hollywood's Gestapo agents are popeyed, fat-necked baby peelers. Seaton's monsters look the way monsters usually look - like everybody else...
...Fudge, Weeden, Morse, Gilmor. Lahti, Gilmor, Bernstein. 3B: Diehl. HR: Johnson, Combs...