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...lasted another year "our whole civil population would have gradually emerged in cheap but serviceable uniforms. Types of shoes were to be reduced to two or three. The manufacture of pleasure automobiles was to cease." As it was, the Board cut the number of steel plow models for sale in the U.S. from 312 to 76, tire sizes from 287 to 9, styles and colors of bathing caps to one per manufacturer, kinds of wooden coffins...
...jumpers, Hitchcock's are neither converted flat racers nor hunters. He buys weanling thoroughbreds (both in Europe and the U. S.), with infinite patience and understanding, develops them into extraordinarily tractable jumpers. As yearlings, when most thoroughbreds are mighty kickuppy, Hitchcock's pets are as stolid as plow horses, let stable boys shinny up & down their legs, take barriers again & again with no temperament...
...Government went into the movie business with a bang by producing three superb documentary films in four years. In 1936 came The Plow That Broke the Plains, in 1937 The River, in 1940 The Fight for Life. All three were directed by Pare Lorentz. The first dealt with the dust bowl, the second with flood control, the third probed childbirth mortality in U. S. slums. Even captious critics granted that its 69 minutes of clinical realism established Pare Lorentz as No. 1 U. S. director of documentary films...
...group which made The Plow and The River was organized as the U. S. Film Service with Pare Lorentz as its head. Unlike other New Deal agencies, the U. S. Film Service never asked Congress for spending money. In March the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Bill came before the House of Representatives. Its total of $1,021,639,700 contained an item requesting $106,400 to continue the U. S. Film Service after June 30. Before they paid out, legislators proposed to find out what they were paying for. They learned that...
...score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra for Pare Lorentz' The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River. Last year Aaron Copland contributed a lean, muscular musical commentary to The City. This year his music for Of Mice and Men was cut closer to Hollywood's measure...