Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the War Production Board sets civilian-production quotas, it isn't fooling. So discovered the Hurley Machine division of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. Ordered to make only 44,000 washing and ironing machines last fall, said WPB, Hurley made 76,000 instead. The penalty, imposed by WPB last week: complete shutdown of production for six months. Suggested name for quota chiselers: chislings...
...generation of critics of a particularly American form of art who apparently have nothing better to do than to sit in picture shows and bore themselves stiff If the pictures they see are so god-awful that they're disgusted night after night in seeing them, then it isn't much of a compliment to them that they continue to do it. It's probably all for filthy gold, anyway...
...might be argued that if we get rid of the superior minds in criticism, then there is no chance for an improvement of the admittedly poor standards of the motion picture industry. But that isn't so. A critic who is so far above and apart from his audience that he doesn't think in the same terms isn't going to accomplish anything at all in improving the quality of what they're getting...
...Mazza isn't content to let his country down when he stops work. He is the President of the Italian-American Citizen's Club of Ward 9, Cambridge, which he organized seven years ago; the Club has been buying bonds regularly, though not under the Eliot House Plan...
There are others in the cast besides Eddy and his buxom companion, but since most of Hollywood's actors work under contracts that are pretty hard to break, it isn't really their fault...