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...pictures of the beings who dwell in this lost country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...
...made a fortune supplying munitions to the Allies. After investing $49 million in General Motors, he borrowed $35 million more (1920) to save the company from bankruptcy, soon put G.M. back on its feet. Assailed as a "merchant of death" during the early '30s, Pierre began to plow wartime profits into peacetime research, developed many profitable new chemical products (e.g., Cellophane, nylon, synthetic rubber). Resigning as chairman of the board of directors at 70, he devoted himself to philanthropy and gardening...
...pointed out that profits are returned not on the current year's investment alone, but on the total investment, i.e., $1.5 billion on $16 billion, or less than 10%. On gross profits, said Hotchkis, the investors pay foreign taxes of more than 30%. Of the net profits, they plow back well over half -62% in 1952-into reinvestment in the countries where the profits were earned...
...Gaullist hooligans lunged at them, shouting: "Resign! Resign!" Leaflets showered down: "They fired Juin today, will they arrest De Gaulle tomorrow?" A man shook his fist in the Defense Minister's face. Officials helped Laniel elbow his way to a police car. Police had to link arms and plow a path before Pleven could make it to his own car. "This is the first time such a disgraceful and disagreeable scene has ever occurred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," said an official...
...free to all children. Said he: "I do not want our state educational system to become a racing stable, out only to produce overbred classic favorites. We want to produce our racers, but we also want to produce good healthy stock, frightened neither of the plow nor of the shafts...