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...Motion Picture arts and Sciences nominated "All This and Heaven Too" and "The Great Dictator" for the best production award for 1940, and Henry Fonda (for his work in "The Grapes of Wrath") for the best performance award. And twentieth Century-Fox signed Miss Withers to a new seven-year contract. -The New York Times
...Pollster George Gallup found last week that: 1) Franklin Roosevelt's personal popularity had reached 71%-highest figure in the Institute's seven-year "vote of confidence" index; 2) of all Roosevelt 1940 voters, only 5% disapprove his present policies; of all Willkie voters, 38% now approve Roosevelt policies...
...world. One was Anthony Esposito, 35, a long-nosed, horse-faced hoodlum who had been in & out of New York's prisons and reformatories for 16 years, had once been deported to Italy and sneaked back in. His brother William, 29, had robbed drunks, snatched pocketbooks, done a seven-year stretch in Sing Sing. Their father had served time for forgery. Their brother was in Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y. for parole violation. Their lives had been spent in squalor, petty crime, prison and torpid, hard-eyed loafing...
...movie studios, pestering receptionists in the front office for auditions. Last June when Director Wood heard them, he quickly signed Betty for Rangers. Betty's sincere, naïve, yet strangely adult mind has made her as popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought her a seven-year contract which now pays $100 weekly. She supports her family in a small whitewashed bunga low, responds to frequent touches by broke friends and relations. Her greatest extravagance to date is a pair of $3.98 cowboy boots which she used to wear continuously until schoolmates' jibes forced...
...Worst inventory sufferer remained the oil industry, which was also suffering from export trouble. In the first five months of this year crude oil and gasoline exports were 29,204,000 barrels, 34% less than in the same months of 1939. Gasoline tank car prices had reached a new seven-year low. Gasoline inventories were just under 100,000,000 barrels, about 20,000,000 more than the trade thinks they ought to be. Consequence: No. 1 U. S. oil producer, Texas, last week ordered crude-oil production prorated down 219,000 barrels a day. To complicate the readjustment...