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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some simple and quietly careful acting and a great deal of perceptive photography combine to make the Copley's latest English import a good movie. An improbable and often mawkish story keeps it far from being a great...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...ones needed to let the Government: 1) tell employers the numbers and kinds of workers they may hire, 2) see that individuals serve in the jobs for which they are best fitted, 3) require the hiring of women, physically handicapped and older workers and members of minority groups, 4) import workers from friendly countries if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Action | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Cold Commitment. Rearmament would stretch Japan's present piano-wire economy to the breaking point. Japan must import most of its industrial raw materials, even depends on outside sources for 20% of its food. Southeast Asia can supply part of Japan's new material needs, but the loss of access to North China's coal and iron has dimmed Japan's industrial prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREATIES: Liability into Assets? | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...some Japanese rearmament by continuing or increasing this after the signing of a treaty. The U.S. subsidy could be reduced by the re-creation of a large Japanese merchant marine. A bigger merchant-marine building program, long restricted by occupation policy, would put the Japanese in a position to import distant raw materials at prices they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREATIES: Liability into Assets? | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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