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...tackling So Ends Our Night, Producers Loew & Lewin evidently tossed a large part of their Hollywood experience out the window, turned to European studios for guidance. It has the pace and scenic variety of a British thriller (The 39 Steps, Night Train}, some of the photographic intensity of pre-war French and German films. Unlike many previous U. S. anti-dictator films, it has maturity as well as indignation...
Amid mounting evidence that U. S. clergymen are moving steadily away from their pre-war pacifism, a new fortnightly will be launched next week to give antipacifist churchmen a voice. Its title: Christianity and Crisis. Its keynote...
...English clerical family through the first three decades of the 20th Century. Always a ready hand with the Gentle Soul beset by the Stupid Community (notably in If Winter Comes), he plays it now in the Rev. Gordon Brecque, his patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily, and the younger daughter makes bad use of a roadhouse, is killed in an auto wreck. But the focus is on the war...
...successive weeks from mid-August, the index of 28 spot prices crept up 12% to a point 18% above pre-war levels, only 8% below the previous fall's false war boom. But whereas 1939's false boom was really confined to raw commodity prices, 1940's advance carried up practically all prices of manufactured goods. By mid-November, when the spot-price index was still under its September 1939 peak, the Bureau's much broader index of 863 wholesale prices had passed the 1939 peak, was up to 79.7% of its 1926 average. In short...
Even cotton manufacturers, who have not been able to plead higher raw-material prices, have pushed broadcloth prices up from 4 to 25%, print cloth 13 to 14% anyway. By December this wholesale price situation had raised store prices from one to four percent over pre-war levels for suits, underwear, sheets and blankets...