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Reconversion. Gone-according to Sam Zemurray-are the reckless, nomadic days of banana planting when United Fruit used to rip out railway tracks from diseased plantations, leaving laborers to shift for themselves in the jungle. Now, rather than let its wartime abacá acreage go back to bush, United Fruit plans to let laborers have the land (which it got for little or nothing) and raise abacá as a peacetime "peasant crop." In 1944 the company opened an agricultural school at El Zamorano, Honduras, to train scientific dirt farmers free of charge...
...buys land in Iowa today is a fool." The speaker, naturally, was an Iowa dirt farmer, sounding off last week on the rip-roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I boom, in which Iowa land went to $255 an acre-and the bust, when it dropped to $69. So many went broke that in the early 1930's insurance companies held an area equal to eight Iowa counties. But others forgot to remember. Even in Iowa, fat with corn and hogs, a man could not make a long-term profit on land that cost...
Tomorrow Is Forever (International-RKO Radio) is a specious, stylishly dressed domestic drama starring Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster...
...rip-roaring collective-bargaining days, Labor Leader Ernie Bevin shouted and pounded the table-but he did not stop bargaining. He "gave it to 'em for fair" (a favorite Bevin phrase), and the Russians were not happy. But they were still in UNO, and UNO was still in one piece. The piece was much more of a piece than it had been before...
...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...