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Nobody contradicted him publicly, for, unless the Army had some real secrets up its sleeve, he was right. More through loose, wishful reporting than through the fault of manufacturers or responsible flying officers, the Army's new pursuit planes have been crowned with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They...
Prices. FORTUNE suggested to its Forum one reason for unemployment that was not Government's fault. This was the old Brookings Institution thesis: that industry itself had failed in many instances to expand its markets (and payrolls) by reducing prices. With this thesis a significant majority agreed wholly (16.2%) or in part (49%). Pinned down to the question of whether decreased prices in depression industries would have upped volume sufficiently to reduce layoffs, 27.2% answered yes, 35.4% perhaps, 37.4% no. Of the yes-men, one-fifth thought the increased volume would have boosted profits, 46.7% felt they would have...
Through no fault of Chaplin's, during the two years he was at work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy. He probably intended to do an uproarious farce on dictatorship, or an amusing story of a shy little man who finds himself in a dictator's shoes. He ended by also doing an arraignment of the megalomania of dictatorship and the pathology of race hatred. Result: Chaplin the comedian and Chaplin the lover of democracy together run dictator-wild...
...Preceded by enthusiastic rumors heralding it as the best picture since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated home-run hitter going to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. That it failed to clear the bases is as much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality of the sea. In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer bound from the West...
...dissatisfaction with "Twelfth Night" Miss Hughes writes that "the suspicion remains that some of it was Shakespeare's fault ... Perhaps it all boils down to the fact that 300-year-old jokes are apt to need footnotes, that actors haven't time to step to the footlights and explain why they are supposed to be funny, and that some of the jokes in "Twelfth Night" need a lot of explaining...