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Time of Decision. But the year off seems to have been a time of decision for Gleason. Late in 1958, he took on a role as a serious actor - in a television produc tion of Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. To nearly everybody's astonishment, he was enormously impressive. Then Producer David Merrick asked him to play the blissfully besotted Uncle Sid in Take Me Along-the musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. His collision with Merrick, whose ego matches his. was Homeric. "What's the highest straight salary ever...
...trickle of new civilian goods, was summarily choked off by the Army demands. Last week, WPB decided that the time had come to put the spot plan into full operation again. This meant that, as fast as plants finish up their war contracts, they can get into produc tion on a limited number of civilian goods...
...capacity to mechanical refrigeration and centrifugal driers. Like the Jackling copper process, it permits the use of much lower grade ores-as low as 8%, which is less than half the minimum required by the Shanks process. It cuts labor costs 75%, fuel costs 72%. It means that mass produc- tion has come to Chilean nitrate, that the Guggenheims are even more the masters of the show. For the new Chile Nitrate Co. into which the entire industry has been merged will use the Guggenheim. Process. Gradually the many small Shanks process plants will be eliminated. With mass production working...
...amusement purveyor, Mr. Brown will have as assets on hand the Keith-Albee theatre circuit, the F. B. O. Produc tion Co.'s pictures, and the Radio Corpo ration's talking movie, the Photophone...
...tariff has not enhanced the price of raw produc or of the manufactured article. Neither the wool grower nor the manufacturer has been benefitted by the tariff; and certainly the consumer has not, for he has been compelled to assume the burden of an indirect tax which the manufacturer lays upon him to himself escape injury from the tariff...