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...rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
...Paramount, bedeviled by the inexorable disappearance of young leading Hollywood males into the U.S. armed forces, the happiest discovery of Take A Letter is undoubtedly bright, manly MacDonald Carey, whose first cinemappearance (as the tobacco baron) is a bang-up job. Fresh from the corn country (University of Iowa, '35), young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
Wendell Willkie, who carried six corn-belt States in 1940, hovered this week in the background of a corn-belt primary. Iowa Republicans went to the polls to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate. They had four choices, but the fight centered on two: Governor George Wilson, veteran corporation lawyer and politico, and State Secretary of Agriculture Mark Thornburg, backed by Willkie...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
Contrasted with the two recent movie treatments of this same general subject, "The Corn Is Green" is lacking in power and persuasiveness. There is very little of the social consciousness that made the movies so fine. The local squire who has done everything to stop the school so that the old ways may continue, is treated only with a humor that makes him wholly likeable and amusing. Yet Emlyn Williams--perhaps better known as an actor on the British stage and screen--has built up two well-developed characters and created a powerful, if subjective, conflict between them. Around this...