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...once, is thrown by three projectors on a deep-curved screen so huge (64 ft. by 23 ft.) that it cannot possibly be built into the average movie house. Its effect on audiences at Manhattan's Broadway Theater was startling. It ran over the customers like a colossal vacuum cleaner, sucking them up into whatever it was doing. When the screen went for a roller-coaster ride, the whole theater seemed to heave and be dragged, screaming, after...
...investments in China totaling about $1.3 billion. Since the Communists took over, the attrition rate has been tremendous. In some cases, "to safeguard China's security," the Reds have simply seized foreign assets, e.g., Britain's Shell Co. of China and the U.S.'s Standard Vacuum and Caltex oil companies. In China today, only about 15 Western companies still operate, with fewer than 250 Westerners running them. Almost all are located in Shanghai...
...then, like a great black cat in trouble in the jungle, he stiffened and trembled, and cried out. Jesus, Jesus, oh Lord Jesus! He struck on the piano one last, wild note and threw up his hands, palms upward, stretched wide apart. The tambourines raced to fill the vacuum left by his silent piano, and his cry drew answering cries. Then he was on his feet, turning, blind, his face congested, contorted with this rage, and the muscles leaping and swelling in his long, dark neck . . . and he began to dance...
Last year the United States exported $5 billion more of merchandise than it imported; economic aid had to fill this vacuum so Europe could buy raw materials from the United States rather than from Russia. If we raise tariffs the discrepancy will grow, and Americans will have to pay twice: in higher taxes and higher prices. Moreover, if we prevent other nations from selling their oil and metals to us, we will stall development of their natural resources--something that would cripple us in time...
...petroleum industry, Standard Oil (N.J.) saw its profits drop 4.5% to $126 million. But Socony-Vacuum had a 7.3% gain to $44 million. The net profits of Standard Oil of California ($42,016,-201), Texas Co. ($42,681,806) and Gulf ($35,629,000) remained about the same...