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...million empire. Before the war it raised and merchandised about 65% of the world's banana crop, operated a banana fleet of 80-odd trim white ships, had 126,000 acres of banana land under cultivation. Today all but a dozen of the oldest and slowest of these ships have gone to war (some of the best refrigerated ships have ignobly hauled steel ingots across the Atlantic), and the old hulks still in the Caribbean service must load high priority coffee, sugar, cocoa before hoisting one banana into their holds...
...shot ridden by a 17-year-old jockey: the Melbourne Cup, Australia's No. 1 horse race; finishing seven lengths ahead of Phocion and Heart's Desire, both 50-to-1 shots; at Flemington, near Melbourne, Australia. It was the widest walkaway in 70 years, the slowest race (3:33¼ for two miles) in 50 years. Instead of the usual gold cup, Colonus' owner received $650 in war bonds...
...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...
...Moonlight in Hawaii" is nobody's picture--not the producer's, not the director's, not the actor's, not the gag-writers'; nobody's, not even the garbage man's. It's one of the cheapest, slowest, corniest, dullest pictures ever to come out of Hollywood. That's going...
...version of the Northland's version of California's Okic, without Steinbeck touches. Henry Fonda plays the part of the itinerant tree-chopper-downer, but his dreaminess is far less appropriate than it was in the character of Tom Joad. Nor is he helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault may well lie with Joan Bennett, who, as always, is never other than...