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Gramercy Ghost is as dull-witted as it is snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness-a pure Caspar Milqueghost-a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything...
...Snail's Pace. The long-standing indecision of the Administration showed on other fronts. In his Economic Report, despite promises of vast expenditures in the future, the President gave some idea of the relatively niggling size of the rearmament effort to date. Currently, he pointed out, rearmament is taking 7% of the national output; next year it may take as much as 18%. In World War II, rearmament absorbed 45% of all the nation's wealth and property...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (see below) offered further evidence of the snail's pace of the war effort. "Total expenditures of the Department of Defense," he said, "for the six months up to Jan. 2, 1951, were $7.9 billions as compared to $7.2 billions during the comparable period of the year before. This was an increase of only 9%. Yet the military situation is certainly more than 9% more serious than it was a year...
...danger of mass layoffs finally seemed big enough to speed up Washington's snail-slow letting of war contracts. A $100 million contract for military trucks was given to General Motors Corp., and a $160 million contract for medium tanks to Chrysler Corp., its biggest contract to date. The Chrysler contract, said Army Ordnance, was a starter on one of the largest tank orders ever placed by the Army. But production probably would not begin for many months, since Chrysler planned to build a new plant near Newark, Del. to make the tanks...
Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...