Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money and talent than it has, TACA can draw from big, rich Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which owns 29% of TACA stock...
...picture is directed to the last gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
Gasser to Comm Z. On his hunt for new infantrymen in Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...
Plugging the Leaks. The majors, grimly aware that they are being drained of their most valuable talent, have taken measures to plug the leaks. In self-defense, Paramount has been forced to welcome the independent producing companies of Hal B. Wallis, Cecil B. De Mille and Buddy DeSylva within the parent organization. All now use Paramount's technical facilities, and players. All release through Paramount, which collects about 50%, instead of all of the profits...
...pity that because of the necessary secrecy surrounding much of the work the significance to the nation of vast mobilization of academic talent...