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That need will be paramount in Lord Catto's mind, just as it was paramount in Montagu Norman's mind a quarter-century ago. The means may have to be new: the grand objective is the same. Lord Catto is the first to acknowledge that Britain cannot exist unless some kind of system of trading and credit can be reestablished at war's end. The paramount question will be: What kind of system...
...Memphis Belle (U.S. Eighth Air Force-Paramount) is the name of a Flying Fortress. This 45-minute picture reports the Belle's 25th mission over Germany, which retired her crew to the U.S. The film is chiefly the work of Lieut. Colonel William Wyler, whose last film as a civilian was Mrs. Miniver, a shrewd but somewhat plushy war poster. There is no plush about Memphis Belle. It is one of the few genuinely exciting U.S. documentaries...
Explained De Liagre: "All the movie companies were on my neck, so I went to M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros, and told them my idea. I don't think the price is outrageous. I'm gambling just as much as they are. For all I know, Turtle may be worth $6 million." As for Hollywood: "It has blown their hats off, but I'd say there's a good deal of response. Right now they're in a huddle...
...Necessary? "I hold no brief," said De Golyer frankly, "for the Government's Arabian pipeline [but] until some satisfactory substitute is found ... I am for the line. The oilfields of the Middle East are practically certain to be of paramount importance as a source of the world's oil supplies for a generation to come. . . . The fact that the Iraq Petroleum Co.* is even now asking for steel with which to build a line of substantially the same size ... is sufficient answer as to whether additional petroleum is needed in the Eastern Mediterranean...
Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...