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...million on new equipment, total depreciation charges amounted to $232 million. This means that the major steel producers have relied on their depreciation reserves to maintain the value of their plants, while the Government has stepped in to finance most of the new plant capacity. Such financing was unknown in World War I and raises some thorny ownership questions for the postwar...
...campaign had cost the Japs at least one battleship, 13 cruisers, 22 destroyers, twelve troop transports, at least eight cargo vessels, 797 planes destroyed, hundreds more crippled and possibly destroyed, some 8,000 men killed in action; an unknown number dead of disease; 30,000 drowned when transports were sunk...
...Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with a diaphanous light suggesting England's Turner, for whom he had great admiration...
...American radio public suffered no great loss by missing a few sentences of what Pearson and Winchell had planned to say. The particular situation which led to the sudden strictness may not, in itself, be significant. But the unheralded censorship of nation-wide commentators by an unknown hand could lead, particularly in wartime, to the abolition of all unfavorable criticism of the government, deserving or not. At present, the radio stations are in no position to stand up for their "freedom of speech," for they well realize that too-strong insistence may cause the revoking of their licenses...
...Unknown to her in the early days of their marriage, Grant extravagantly spends money he doesn't have, dreaming, talking of his future financial plans: plans which never materialize. As his castles in the air begin to crumble, his friend and partner, Nigel Bruce, is mysteriously murdered, and due to evident circumstances, Grant is suspected. Miss Fontaine is taken with fear of her husband, fear that he is a murderer and that she may be his next victim. She tries to flee from him, but he reaches her, and in the most depressingly "phoney" scene of the film, tells...