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...West Coast's astounding Henry J. Kaiser (TIME, March 3, 1941, et seq.) gave some astounding reports on his part of the shipbuilding program last week. This month, he said, his three West Coast yards will deliver a ship a day; Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. alone will deliver twelve Liberty ships from its eleven ways...
Steinbeck's paisanos were shiftless, harmless, simple, brawling, wine-bibbing Mexican mixed-breeds; M.G.M.'s are purebreds Spencer Tracy, Frank Morgan, John Garfield, et al. It is hard for them to be paisanos, but Victor Fleming's eloquent direction produces many a memorable sequence from the formless, wandering story. His characters never become quaint, and their activities are generally human and appealing...
...evening. First Budge Alcorn entertained, then Filley came on again with more piano, including the beautiful "Body and Soul." When he stopped, the rioting started up again. Ice cream, of all things, started it when Joe Eldredge began throwing the bricks of cream to the hungry Yardlings et...
Bitterer still was another point in the agreement: the U.S. companies are still liable for "the private claims against [them] now pending before the Mexican courts." If the "private claims" include all the wage claims that were made just before expropriation, it could well mean that Standard, et al. owed Mexico money on balance...
...room was hot and tempers hotter. The Justice Department was conducting a drive along the lines of its Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered...