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Head of the Development Corp. is Clifford S. Strike, president of F. H. McGraw & Co. (TIME, Jan. 1), which plans to build the mill on a 1,600-acre site with an 8,000-ft. waterfront on Long Island Sound near New London, Conn. Last week the Development Corp. got a certificate of necessity from NSRB which allows it to write off the cost of the mill in five years, a big tax concession. Now it expects to have little trouble raising the construction capital from New England's insurance companies and investment trusts. The Development Corp...
Many of the wild-eyed agitators in the audience hissed the child, cheered the cur. Challenged to say how medical science could advance without experiments on animals, anti-vivisectionists had suggested using human beings-starting with waterfront bums, then prisoners in the jails, finally the inmates of insane asylums...
...Gave the Coast Guard sweeping authority to search vessels, restrict the waterfront and otherwise safeguard U.S. ports because "the security of the United States is endangered by reason of subversive activity...
...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...Breaking Point sheds high credit on both sides of the camera. Much of its quality stems from Cinematographer Ted (Treasure of Sierra Madre) McCord's fine photography of sun-baked waterfront and open sea. All the players are in top form. In his meatiest role in years, Actor Garfield gives one of his best performances, and Actress Thaxter is memorable as a housewife bowed down by drudgery, poverty and fear...