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Accessories Extra. In San Francisco, Edward T. Adkins, who had equipped his car with a magazine rack, movie camera, electric torch and drill and an airplane steering gear, was stopped for driving without license plates...
Scripter-Producer Nunnally Johnson has a pleasant wit, but in this show, most of the time, it is only working in second gear; and at best, he is no magician. In simple justice, the question arises: Would anyone know, any better, what to do with a mermaid...
...food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose to issue them bullets, the little band in white caps and grey uniforms would become U.N.'s first armed force...
Cash Crop. The town centers around the wharf and the offices of the three lobster companies that hold lobstering concessions from the government. All the dories on the beach are owned by the companies, which supply gear and gasoline for boats with outboard motors. Each dawn the lobstermen go out to set and pull their pots, returning at dusk to sell their lobsters to the companies for ten pesos (30?) apiece. For the fishermen and their families, life in the Juan Fernández is monotonous and lonely, and the sea is full of danger. Even so, they say, they...
...High Gear. In the first quarter of 1948, the British automobile industry nosed out the U.S. as the world's largest exporter of passenger cars. The three-month score: Great Britain, 56,812; the U.S., 55,444. (During March, Britain's carmakers, whose export quota is 75% of total production, edged this up to 78%.) Most U.S. motormakers, selling all they can make at home, have not tried to push exports...