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...upper-income groups had once eaten the bulk of the nation's meat, low-income groups the bulk of canned goods. Now meat would soon be shared & shared alike-and even beans ("the poor man's food") now had high point values. Precious few foods (examples: olives, mincemeat, popcorn) remained unrationed. Cook books, vegetable gardens and a knowledge of dietetics became more highly to be prized than can openers or rubies...
...giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making a man out of the Culver kid, John Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank Merriwell, tame enough for Grandma, too trite for anyone...
Although Roxie Hart makes a hilarious burlesque of Chicago's Keep-Cool-With-Coolidge, Keep-Cockeyed-With-Capone era, it is often too overdone for superior farce. Mouthpiece Menjou and Newsman Overman make mincemeat of their fat roles; America's own Ginger Rogers is attractive but unbelievable in hers. The star plays second fiddle...
Thus, in a few words, Jim Adams made mincemeat of his own elaborately worked-out quota system. Privately some OPM-ites had already said there was not enough copper for essential defense and civilian needs (TIME, Aug. 18); officially, OPM had recognized an 11,000,000-ton steel shortage for this year; the aluminum shortage was already a vaudeville joke. As far as OPM's meager statistics showed, the quotas were not only a maximum but a reverie. It was possible, to be sure, that automakers had much bigger inventories of scarce materials than they admitted. (They had enough...
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