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...pointed Soviet Star, was built by the State to the tune of $9,090,000. The proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
Most probable mediums (now light bombers by comparison): ¶ North American's B-25 Mitchell-apparently a nose ahead of Martin's B-26 Marauder...
...deposits total at least 25 million tons. Engineers estimate unproved reserves up to ten times this figure. Expected annual production by 1946: 2,000,000 tons. This is small change compared to the 65,000,000 tons produced last year by Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, but the comparison does not show the real importance of Steep Rock to the Canadian and U.S. steel industries...
...individual income tax to raise 72% of the total. The Twin Cities plan proposes to raise $18 billion from a national income of only $120 billion. So it counts on its individual income tax-only 6% lower than Ruml's-to raise 28% of the total. A comparison of the two proposals (in millions...
...Sell a "Character." But gargantuan sets were easy by comparison with the problem of converting a famously cold and fiercely arrogant intellectual-in the withering jargon of show business, a "character"-into a cinema hero. The makers of Wilson have gentled, sweetened, warmed, simplified and softlighted Woodrow Wilson's complex personality in every way the facts allowed. Their title-role choice of Canadian-born Alexander Knox, largely for his excellent voice, was well-nigh perfect for the purpose...