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...exciting start with some suspenseful shots of a dazed derelict (Joan Crawford) wandering the streets of a great city at dawn, in search of a man named David. When she collapses, Miss Crawford is taken to a psychopathic ward. By the time the psychiatrist's drugs loosen her locked tongue enough to tell her story, Joan's desperate beauty and her fine, florid movie personality have aroused an intensity of interest which only a top grade picture could satisfy...
...State Department had worried plenty about Alemán's reception (TIME May 5). But within a few hours after he landed at Washington's National Airport, the State Department could loosen its proto-collar...
...Retrenchment. No one expected the pinch to loosen for at least six months. Even the normally optimistic CPA said: "The shortage in steel will last for 18 months or two years...
...Arabs and British control Palestine. Arab leaders, fearful that large-scale Jewish immigration with its land acquisition and higher living standards would loosen their hold on the Arab masses, have continually urged Britain, the mandatory power, to restrict further Jewish entry. Pledged by the Balfour Declaration and the League Mandate to help establish a Jewish State in Palestine, the British have been unwilling to carry out their promise because the Arabs threatened their security and oil in the Middle East. Commissions returned from Palestine with trumped-up findings which "proved" that Palestine could not absorb further immigration while Arabs were...
...Three and the individual defendants will have to pay fines of $15,000 each. But no one was naive enough to believe that this would loosen the hold of the Big Three on the cigaret industry...