Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journal also ran an economic shocker under the headline SCANDALOUS PROFITS. The story: textile importers were marking up New York prices for profits ranging up to 450%. The carefully documented exposé started a consumers' boycott, sent cloth prices tumbling, forced a government investigation of the textile industry. Hundreds of Haitians wrote Journal begging for more issues and more expos...
Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
...eight months, have trooped into doctors' and dentists' offices to get free medical care under the Labor government's National Health Service. Last week the government delivered the bill for all the spectacles, dentures and trusses. Like many a doctor's bill, it was a shocker...
Director Zinneman first builds strong sympathy for Heflin as a prosperous, affectionate husband and father who works hard in postwar days to get housing for his fellow veterans. Then he takes a closer look at Ryan, the would-be killer. The picture's real shocker is that the audience has little choice between hunter and hunted. The edge, if any, belongs to the hunter. Plainly, Veteran Heflin can never live down the one fateful, irretrievable act that even stands between him and his wife (Janet Leigh). But Ryan has a chance to make a life for himself if only...
...long enough last week to pick the ten best of 1948. By week's end, four notable lists' had appeared. Only two films landed on all four lists: Sir Laurence Olivier's monumental Hamlet and Warner's melodrama, Johnny Belinda. 20th Century-Fox's shocker about insanity, The Snake Pit, placed on three lists (its late release missed the deadline for the fourth...