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Such a leading role might be the despair of a skilled actress; for Lana Turner, it is a disaster. Looking less svelte than chunky, she fails even to make the heroine attractive. Milland is a portrait of acute discomfort, and such able players as Tom Ewell and Louis Calhern squeak by in lesser assignments. Wasted in her first movie role, Broadway's Actress Phillips (The Cocktail Party) plays in a wheelchair, but walks away with every scene in which she appears...
...supposedly said that an army marched on its stomach. But in modern war, an army-and a nation at war-rides on its freight cars. In World War II, U.S. railroads hauled 142 million carloads of freight, the biggest cargo lift in history, and barely had enough cars to squeak...
...biggest U.S. scarcity was in fast ocean passenger tonnage convertible to troop transport service. No U.S. passenger ships were built during World War II, and the pip-squeak postwar construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits...
...biggest mistake was made when Arizona's Senator McFarland yelled at him "You do violate the law?" and Erickson blurted "yes" in a startled squeak. Four days later, Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan seized all of Erickson's neat records, and the big gambler's financial front man began singing for the D.A. Hogan charged Frank with conspiracy and 59 counts of bookmaking...
...average payment to a man who has reached 65 is only $26 a month. If his wife is also over 65, he gets more; the average payment is $41. Yet Government agencies have reckoned that in 13 major cities an elderly couple needs at least $120 a month to squeak...