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...year ago prosecutions for looting averaged twelve daily. Labor's Clement Richard Attlee told the Trades Union Congress that "Hitler has already suffered grievous defeats." The Sultan of Johore's girl friend, Lydia Cecily Hill, was killed by a bomb...
...bath and telephone services were just about normal last week. Pedestrians no longer gawked at rescue squads digging out bodies, instead watched the installation of auxiliary water tanks in bomb craters. Rationing of food (somewhat lessened) and clothing (still 66 coupons per person) continued, but there was food aplenty for those who could pay (50% more than last year...
...dearly loves to address conferences, herded together an earnest conclave of 250 local officials from all over China, fed his sweltering delegates lemon pop, tea, cake, pastry, explained the law, sent them home. All summer from dawn to midnight, in Chungking's offices and dugouts, Kung's bomb-battered underlings pieced together the machinery of China's greatest reform in centuries. Chiang Kai-shek quietly increased the local gendarmes all through Szechwan, just in case there was trouble...
...Philadelphia, train-building Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. turned out its millionth aerial bomb. > In Detroit, where Ford and General Motors are getting ready to join Chrysler in producing tanks, the national production rate (now about 25 a day) is expected to reach 100 a day by spring...
Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date. Though it lacks the bomb-burst novelty of Snow White, its craftsmanship is far beyond that memorable fairy tale's. Seldom has Disney articulated his characters so aptly. Dumbo is a most human little fellow, not bright, but willing. His costar, Timothy, is an appealing caricature of a Hollywood agent with a heart. The elephant ladies' aid society ("Girls! Have I got a trunkful of dirt!") is artful satire...