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...intrusions are little but hollow bows to the conventions of comedy since the two leads hardly need each other to sustain the humor. This is no routinely funny picture with a comedian flipping clever lines at a straight man. Almost every speech is self contained with a built-in combination set-up and punch line. The effect is marvelous, if exhausting...
There were other evidences of built-in stability. Despite U.S. industry's investment of $80 billion in new plants and equipment in the last three years, businessmen plan to expand at the rate of $27.9 billion a year in the first quarter of 1954, only 1% below 1953's record rate. Businessmen would prefer much less Government spending and an end to deficits (estimated U.S. deficit next fiscal year: $3 billion). But they also recognize that arms spending of $38 billion will be a big stabilizing influence...
Even the stock market has a kind of built-in stability, since by old yardsticks stocks are cheap. The stocks in the Dow-Jones industrials average are selling at little more than ten times earnings v. 20 times earnings in 1929. And on top of that, many U.S. corporations, if they were to liquidate, would actually pay their stockholders more in cash than their stocks are selling...
...Door. A refrigerator with a built-in spigot in the door was introduced by Motor Products Corp.'s Deep Freeze division and Crosley. The tap connects itself with a large dispenser that holds water, fruit juice or other beverage...
...other hand, he asks, did Otto Lilienthal, the Wright Brothers, Santos-Dumont, and a hatful of other pioneer airmen?among them, Igor Sikorsky ?come into a wingless world lusting to fly and apparently equipped with some kind of built-in mental equipment which helped them do so? Sikorsky never goes so far as to conclude that he is an instrument of Divine Providence, but neither can he, as a deeply religious man, avoid-wondering how else to explain some of his own rarer moments of intuition...