Word: justness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as extraordinary is what is now going on within Pratt & Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a...
> Consolidations are also impractical because the big roads cannot agree among themselves on which of the little roads they will absorb. ICC, in its Consolidation Plan in 1929, compromised by agreeing to the creation of as many as 21 systems. Plans less influenced by political prudence advocate something more like...
Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment...
James Stewart, who had just turned in the top performance of his cinematurity as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best...
The Great Victor Herbert (Paramount) opens with a stern view of the bulgy, bobbing little maestro tripping down the centre aisle of a theatre to conduct a synthetic Victor Herbert operetta. When he turns to make his bow, the audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed...