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...account, subject to taxation only in so far as the plant proves useful after the emergency. They believe that competitive bidding on war orders should be waived, to allocate orders to the plants best equipped to supply them fastest (75.5%). Most of them have not yet been given a preview of M-Day. Only 6.6% had received definite instructions on what the Government expects their business to do in wartime; 35.6% did not know; 36.9% thought the Government has not yet got around to expecting anything...
...middle of the week, no one was as much interested in casualties as in the election results. Official results would not be announced until September, but it was expected that after meeting last week the juntas computadoras (vote-counting boards) would let the public have a preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York...
Time in the Sun (Marie Seton). "As you watch, you are ready to believe that Eisenstein has indeed created the supreme masterpiece up-to-date of the movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...
...advertising from other papers)-which it proposed to issue. In an advertisement last week it claimed to have got back 173,006 cards authorizing newsdealers to begin delivering PM at readers' doors with its first issue this week. To those who had returned cards PM sent a "preview edition...
Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader...