Word: productions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also playing at the Exeter is "Broken Journey," a product of J. Arthur Rank's movies to date. A handful of peculiar characters crash in a transcontinental plane high atop a glacier. Before they are rescued, they have driven each other and the audience crazy. The only worthwhile acting is that of obese Francis L. Sullivan whose jowls vibrate as he sings operatic selections for his hungry fellow travellers. Don't rush to catch the beginning of this film because nothing much happens in the first hour and a half...
...drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...
However, not only is the end product of the subtle argument dangerous; its internal reasoning is vulnerable. First, some professors are of sufficient value to the party as "names" so that they are allowed to retain a considerable measure of intellectual freedom. Second, many Marxist teachers deviate from the party line as much as Democrats or Republicans do in their thinking. Finally, there is considerable value to be gained from an objective presentation by these men of an ideology which is now in competition with our own. At least they may bring up for re-examination some of the accepted...
Radioactive iodine, which has now been shown to be effective in curing disease, is a by-product of nuclear chain-reacting "piles," used to manufacture the materials for atomic bombs. There are many such piles now in operation, all under Army direction. Up to the present, the Army has been unable to release the radioactive by-products of the piles for medical or research purposes. Any one of the existing piles produces more than enough radioactive iodine in one day's operation to treat every sufferer from Graves' disease in the country. At present, all such radioactive materials are stored...
...tracks, is enrolled in one of England's oldest, most snobbish schools. For several reels, while the camera conscientiously explores the virtues and vices of the school system, young Jack gets caned, taunted, snubbed and bullied by his masters and schoolmates. In the end he emerges a successful product of the British public-school system, with a stiff upper lip and an upper-class accent. Both upper & lower social classes, presumably, have learned a lot in the process...