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Long & Short. More pessimistic were six economists who testified before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week that the recession may not be as short-lived as many people hope. Said Professor Jewell J. Rasmussen of the University of Utah, summing up the group's sentiment: "The possibility of...
THE U.S. had not merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet...
Written on the Wind (Universal-International) opens with Rock Hudson, geologist for a Texas oil company, taking Lauren Bacall, a secretary, to lunch at a swank Manhattan saloon where there is no telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil...
She is an incredibly beautiful woman with an unsymmetrical face. Most of the movie's fake German accents ring false but hers seems real. She has a wonderful aptitude for sizing people up, appraising who is good and who is bad, and doing something about it. She turns on the...
* Deadweight tonnage, the standard U.S. yardstick for merchant ships, is the number of long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35...