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...casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This maneuvering slows "Guided Missile" down to a dead walk near the end as Ford fights his way through various psychosomatic difficulties. Mired in "naval" cliches, this picture will be palatable only to rocket fanciers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1951 | See Source »

...University economists feel that the recent price freeze, while it will help the nation, is only a part of the solution to the inflation peril. In a statement released Saturday, these experts called the ruling only a "holding action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Effect of Price Ceiling Only Temporary, Say Economists | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

...must be backed up with increased taxation," said Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius Six University economists feel that the recent price freeze, while it will help the nation, is only a part of the solution to the inflation peril. In a statement released Saturday, these experts called the ruling only a "holding action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Effect of Price Ceiling Only Temporary, Say Economists | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

Whatever our differences, we must all pull together in this time of common peril. Arm and arm we must march forward into the future, with our shoulder to the wheel, our nose to the grindstone, our ear to the ground and our eye on the main chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Decision | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

...beyond the high-ceilinged Royal York Hotel ballroom. Within a few days he received more than 100 applauding letters from private citizens. One of them, from a retired political leader, said: "This is the speech the people of Canada have been waiting for. It sharpens the sense of our peril and our shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Facing the Facts | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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