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...industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...
Evalyn Walsh McLean, Washington's late, free-handed hostess, turned out to have been a rather cautious grandmother. Her will distributed her estate (including the Hope Diamond) equally among her seven grandchildren-but it left plenty of time for everybody to thresh everything out (including the distribution of the 44¼-carat diamond). The divvy was not to be made until...
Other than script and direction trouble, the picture's chief drawback is its disastrous miscasting of Barbara Stanwyck as a featherweight. Her no-nonsense personality jars a skittery light comedy right off its fragile moorings. When Barbara slips into a filmy negligee and begins to thresh about a hotel bedroom with her leading man, it is impossible to remember that she is supposed to be just kidding around...
...Kremlin dislike his frankness? Then let the Soviet Government attend the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, there thresh out the question of Iran...
...weather had been near-perfect and yields were high. In Montana-as in Canada-last week a roaring wind-&-hail storm streaked for 100 miles through the southeastern counties, ripped barns to kindling, and flattened fields of wheat just as the dumfounded farmers were ready to thresh. Estimated loss: 2½ million bushels of wheat...