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...many people were turning a deaf ear to radio that it was causing talk. Last week Variety compared this year's final summer Hooperatings* with ratings ten years ago. The comparison...
Said Southern Pacific in newspaper ads: "The airlines compare their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...
...good in Austria." So says the G.I. in Austria, and he means by comparison with the lot of U.S. soldiers stationed elsewhere in postwar Europe. Soldiers would grouse even if detailed to the Garden of Eden and last week, as usual, the G.I.s in Austria were grousing at having to attend a series of high-minded but boring Army lectures. But in their time off, the far from sad young men went on having a good time...
...ravaged country such as the Philippines to diversify her entire economy in eight years so that other exports might fill the gap caused by a sugar barrier. Traditionally, sugar is to the Filipino standard of living as coffee is to the Brazilians or cotton to Mississippi growers. The comparison is less than fair considering the losses suffered by Luzon industry during the occupation and the unrest that has paralyzed attempts at large-scale industrial recovery. President Roxas will have all he can do to salvage and rebuild the old plants and mills. Conversion from a one-crop economy must...
...days of the Depression, when even Hollywood wasn't able to afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...