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...Printed from the original 1925 negative, it has been modernized by its producer-director-author-star only to the extent of substituting his own narration for the old subtitles, editing out 1,000 feet of film and adding a musical background score. The result is a sight for sore eyes, for old-style Chaplin fans and novitiates alike...
...Blue publicity department, after many weeks of sore perplexity, devised felt-lined metal jackets bearing the legend BLUE to slip over NBC microphones when photographers are in the offing. New mikes, made of war-precious metals...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...
...hope to have even a fighting chance against two nations like Germany and Japan,--who know what they want in material terms and are sacrificing anything and everything to get it--and fill our own horns with fruits and nuts at the same time. Pearl Harbor got us sore about fighting every local enemy within the town limits. Unless the government takes a stronger hand in directing the total energy of the country toward winning the war and preparing for a less cockeyed world after the war, it will be too late no matter what...
...Aruba in South America. . . . To these points have been extended the pipelines draining the great South American oilfields. . . . Great refineries are located there, out in the ocean, where, as it was described to me by a man who had reported it to the President, they stand out like sore thumbs-defenseless, a standing invitation to attack...