Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the old Shah was deposed in 1941, and his son, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, ascended the throne, things were put on a more businesslike basis. A year ago, the young Shah hired Overseas Consultants, Inc., an eleven-member combine of U.S. industrial consultants and engineering firms,* to blueprint a seven-year plan to develop and industrialize Persia...
...with cheap soap and DDT. Among the report's specific recommendations for the first year: spray DDT in barns, homes, under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
...four studios which will be left to Rank, two are shut tight and two are operating at only half their capacity. Last week, Rank and his subsidiaries had just four productions before the cameras, compared with ten a year ago. An actor at liberty summed it up with an old Hollywood gag: "Out at the Rank studios it's so quiet you can hear an option drop...
Last week, at 21, Shirley completed Hollywood's classic domestic cycle-and startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the Army Air Forces sergeant who became a cinemactor after their marriage four years...
Shirley wanted no alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...