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...major oil empires. A reorganized Pemex would undoubtedly supervise the new setup in order to sustain the necessary fagade of national control. But the independents have reservations: they want guarantees of long tenure, assurances against labor strife. It will probably take a lot of gelatine to make the scheme jell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oily Dynamite | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...what acting is required is adequately handled by Helen Carew and Charles Middleton as the wife and her farmer, any by Charles Burrows, in the only true comic characterization, as Uncle Walt, the perennial senile hick, The rest of the cast waits of the plot to thicken an occasionally jell into a laugh. There are more than the usual number of chuckles and a few that make you rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "January Thaw" | 1/18/1946 | See Source »

Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Slave, Not Free | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Says he: "The whole thing doesn't come through a radio. If you turn the radio on full blast in a live-walled room, something of the sound is there. But try as I will, you can never get it. Your throat becomes a bottleneck and the words jell in your mouth." Even so, his warcasting is the best to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Portable War | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...primer fact about U.S. political opinion in February 1944 was its fluidity: no political pectin had appeared to jell the opinion into a shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: February Survey | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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