Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves. ¶ After a long ban on unions, workers are now allowed to organize, and "emergence of a strong unified labor movement" is in prospect. ¶ Businessmen had been under Government control so long they found it hard "to plan and operate independently," hence reconversion has been "slow and unsatisfactory...
...done some overlooking himself. On July 1 he gave the auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally...
...Though slow-paced and undramatic, The Way to the Tomb wins audiences (including Queen Mary) by its poetry and philosophy, wakes up even the drowsy when its ultra modern scoffers speak verse that smacks of a smart revue...
...years ago Yerex invited Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and other U.S. investors to buy into TACA. Yerex, a New Zealander, hoped this would bring him more American planes and landing rights-in effect, make TACA a U.S. flag line. When the U.S. was slow to get behind TACA, Yerex tried dickering with the British, tried to get them to buy out the American interests. This irritated TACA's new stockholders, chiefly TWA and Pennroad Corp., an investment trust; so did Yerex's highhanded way of running things. They began to bring him down to earth...
...most part, the action is painstakingly slow. But John Ford's expert direction, some beautiful camera work, and excellent performances by the principals keep it from dragging. Working for Director Ford (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath), actors always seem to be more like themselves-or at least more like human beings-than they are in other pictures...