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...pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter in a dive inhabited solely by petty racketeers and prostitutes. Within a few weeks he has been fleeced of his last penny, beaten up again and reduced...
...paper, the story of "It's a Wonderful Life" might appeal to pulp-magazine addicts and people who don't know the truth about Santa Claus. On paper, it would hardly suggest to a normal mind that its transformation into movie form could do anything but heighten to the point of nausea its sentimental hokum and turn-of-the-century American idealism. On the screen, however, it becomes as entertaining, as moving, as funny and sad--in short, as fine a picture as ever came out of Hollywood...
Anticipation. Best of all, the Dominion's markets for 1947 seemed likely to be as good as in 1946. Her 110 pulp and paper mills, the Dominion's largest industry, had turned out nearly 7,000,000 tons of paper products worth $700,000,000-and customers all over the world were clamoring for still higher production. Despite a lack of sheet steel (a shortage caused by U.S. and Canadian steel strikes), auto plants managed to build 178,000 cars and trucks, 3% above the average prewar production. And the pile of domestic and foreign orders was higher...
...held Tommy flat on the living room couch, Dr. Stanley swiftly cut open his windpipe, used a safety pin as a spring to keep the hole open. Air reached Tommy's lungs; he began to breathe again. Later, at a hospital, a surgeon finished the job, extracted orange pulp and seeds from Tommy's throat, sewed...
...found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...