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...hero, Mico Mor, is a broth of a fisherman's boy in County Galway - no champ for brains but strong on earthy virtue. In one of his first scenes, young Mico rashly throws a tin cup at a flock of geese; they charge down the beach and drive him near to drowning in the sea. But like the youngest prince in the old stories, Mico comes through where many a more calculating fellow fails...
MacLeish hopes that, to combat this, the trend will be toward world government. This will not be possible, MacLeish feels, while Russia remains "in the tin can in which she lives...
...touch of the Times," admittedly an "experimental film," is a silent Chaplin-type full length "fantasy" about a kite-flying fad among a group of tin workers. The same double standard applies here, too. The script drags in places, and the unusual musical score starts to grate after a half hour of it. This, if you expect a full-fledged Charlie Chaplin job. But the many clever scenes redeem the whole job if you judge "A Touch of the Times" for what it is--the surprisingly competent first effort of a new undergraduate group...
...angry 56-page report, Senator Johnson pinpointed the main reason for the gouge: tin has been kept off the world market by an international cartel composed of Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Bolivia. Fearing overproduction (and low prices), the cartel held tin output to 165,000 tons last year, 49% less than in 1941. Inept buying by the Munitions Board, which tried to fill up the U.S. stockpile all at once, gave speculators their big chance. Stormed Johnson: "The tin price gouging by some of our oldest international friends is entirely devoid of morality." He urged the Government...
Last week the Government got out of the market, stopped buying for the stockpile. Prices settled back to $1.34 a Ib. To keep U.S. industry from bidding the price up again, the National Production Authority this week took control of all tin imports, announced it will allocate tin to industrial users. There seemed no reason why the same tactic could not be employed to bring down the price of other commodities, such as lead, wool, zinc and tungsten...