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...farmer, wearing a long-billed hunting cap and corduroy pants stuffed into five-buckle arctics, shook the rain from his shoulders, entered the Nanty Glo State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands...
...maltreatment of their product. They get nowhere. Gentile takes the calls in the studio and lets his listeners hear the argument. One sponsor who knows better is a clothier named Conn, who has used the program for eight years. Conn likes to recall that he was once a coal miner and came up the hard way. Gentile & Binge seldom let him forget it. They usually corrupt his program with: "Come on, Conn, you're four buckets behind." Sponsors may get mad, but most of them find that this wacky kind of advertising pays...
Thick-chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a traitor, damn 'em, I ain't a traitor. I'll stay out until hell freezes over...
Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation...
Pittsburgh (Universal) is a pretentious attempt to picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...