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There will soon be an OPA ceiling on new passenger car prices. That was the upshot of a breezy meeting held this week between OPA's Cyrus McCormick and 81 important auto dealers. But the automen were not worried. The ceiling formulas proposed were satisfactory, and nothing was said about used cars...
Sucker has no plot and needs none. It is just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the fact that Comedian Fields is one of the funniest men on earth. Whether he is offering a cure for insomnia ("Get plenty of sleep"), refusing a bromo ("couldn't stand the noise"), nasally vocalizing ("chickens have pretty legs in Kansas"), meticulously blowing the head off an ice cream soda...
What happened, according to hardworking, pacific Mr. Davis, not only upset his plan but threatened the future course of labor mediation: The picket line dispersed; the company took some strikers back, but failed to give them their old jobs. Upshot: union men walked out again...
...upshot of all this is the return of Russia to the Gospel, it will not be the first time the faith has been propagated by the extremities of war. Constantine gave Christianity official status in Rome in Gratitude for his victory at the Milvian Bridge. Clovis made the Franks Christians after winning the Battle of Tolbiac. Charlemagne made the Germans Christians with death as the alternative. Much good probably came of these earlier conversions, more good may come of the President's deal...
When word of Polin's experiments leaked out, President Vargas appointed a committee to invite Polin to Brazil, try to develop commercial production of his plastics. Upshot: an agreement under which Polin has leased his patents to the Brazilian Government for 15 years, will serve as technical adviser at plants built by the Government...