Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months, traffic had picked up so much that many an airline (e.g., American, United, Capital and Western) which had losses in 1949's first quarter thought it had earned enough in the second quarter to wipe them out and show a profit besides. American, for example, might well show a net of close to $3,000,000 for the first six months, more than enough to offset its entire 1948 loss...
Before long, Fairchild found that Ward insisted on running the company in fact as well as name. Soon Ward had enough directors to outvote Fairchild. Fairchild-who invented the Fairchild camera used by the U.S. Army for aerial mapping-prided himself on being an idea man. Ward threw most of his ideas in the wastebasket. Three years ago, fed up, Fairchild resigned as chairman...
...type a hunt & peck letter to ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, telling him about the quarry and his relatives. Joe proposed to send U.S. equipment to the quarry, boost its output and sell stone in the U.S. as well as Italy. Last week, after eleven months of international red tape, Joe Pacifico became the first U.S. businessman to win an industrial guarantee on the continent of Europe...
...biblical legend, the neglected brothers eventually sell the favorite down the river. When the law catches up with Papa Monetti's free-wheeling banking practices, the oldest brother (well played by Luther Adler) fixes it so that Conte gets a seven-year stretch in prison for trying to bribe the jury. The rest of the plot, including Conte's sultry romance with a rich play girl (Susan Hayward), is routine...
Except for a wobbly beam or two-notably some unlikely melodramatics at the end-House is a well-constructed movie. Into its making went an intelligent screen play by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan; some distinguished lighting effects and camera work by Milton Krasner; and Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz's talent for handling atmosphere and sets as effective projections of character. Meatiest character, of course, is arrogant old Monetti, a role which Robinson plays (Italian accent, organ-grinder mustache and all) with bravura and obvious relish...