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...even $2,500-a-week writers wanted to become independent producers, too. The reasons were plain: 1) taxes had taken the meaning, and the lure, out of high salaries; 2) the booming war market had made it a near impossibility to lose money on any cinema, no matter how inept; 3) the discontented wanted more creative freedom than is offered by the major producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Trouble in Paradise | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...operation last week, because a more efficient rail web was now in service. While waiting for Antwerp to reach top unloading capacity, the Allies had the Dutch harbor of Flushing. They had also restored Le Havre and Rouen. If there are any more shortages, it will be because of inept estimates or because of short shipments from the home front. As General Eisenhower put it more delicately at a press conference last week, it will be because the enormous expenditure of Allied material is outrunning shipments delivered at the ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Destroy the Enemy | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Chief's job into three parts: 1) to pick a general or admiral, not to be one; 2) to unite the home front-"results there are far from what they should be"; 3) to wage political warfare against our enemies, at which, said Judd, Franklin Roosevelt is "inept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Last Seven Days | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...supply was chaotic, soldiers were exhausted from long marches, liaison was fantastically bad, command corrupt and inept. At the Masurian Lakes one Russian commander deployed his corps by plain-language radio orders, stupidly tipped off the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Into East Prussia | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Harvey", is full of surprises. Surprise No. 1 is that the slow opening scene never comes to an end; surprise No. 2 is that the second scene reaches truly hilarious proportions; and surprise No. 3 that the end result is a very pleasant bit of fantasy with an occasionally inept script but a winning idea and the excellent Josephine Hull and Frank Fay in the leading roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/20/1944 | See Source »

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