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...series (in which the same stars and support appear six to eight times a year), cost up to a quarter of a million-and a Rogers film can be counted on to gross $650,000. Ordinary oaters return at least a 50% profit. Oaters are, in fact, about the safest investments in the business; their fixed gross can generally be estimated within a few thousand dollars. Of the 316 films made in Hollywood in 1944, 83, or 26%, were Westerns. Aside from the class Western, the only notable development during the past 40 years has been the singing Western, which...
...Catholic University of Washington, D.C.: "The use of the atomic bomb was simply murder." ¶ The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of tens of millions of Moslems, declared in Calcutta that he favored the creation of a "supernational state" to regulate bomb production. Barring that, he would feel safest if the U.S. kept the secret to itself...
...swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the safety regulations that made U.S. commercial aviation the safest in the world. Later, for the Defense Supplies Corp. he helped purge Latin American aviation companies of Nazi control, then joined the Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel...
Some high-powered lawyers argue that the label "Communist" is not libelous, if the editor goes no further. The safest rule (now held to firmly by the Post's lawyers) : when in doubt...
Like Frightened Animals. "I was in Berlin during that last great American [air] attack. I sought safety in an underground railway tunnel which is one of Berlin's 'safest' shelters. Thousands of people were packed together there. Then the first bombs came. The ground heaved, lights flickered. People scrambled about like frightened animals. . . . The lights in the tunnel went out. . . . Some pocket torches were lighted, but proved useless in the cloud of chalky dust that came welling through the tunnel. It penetrated eyes, mouth, nose and ears. People knelt on the railway tracks and prayed...