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Character. But what really pleased Wall Streeters was the "character" of the market. For more than a year every boomlet has been touched off by heavy buying in $1 to $5 cat-&-dog stocks, fourth-grade foreign bonds, etc. (TIME, March 15, 1943 el seq.). This time the dogs were still in demand, but there was heavy blue-chip investing. Du Pont, up six and a half points to 148, hit a new 1944 high; General Motors, A.T.&T. and Johns-Manville ticked off new highs, and a lot more long-neglected topnotchers did almost as well...
...present price of high-grade Brazilian rubber is 60? a lb., which is not far above the cost of gathering it from the scattered wild trees of the jungle. Far Eastern plantation rubber is much cheaper. Synthetic rubber may eventually prove cheaper still. Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with...
Biggest industrial venture is the steel mill at Volta Redonda in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Partly financed by a $45,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for buying U.S equipment, it will process ore from the enormous, high-grade deposits at Itabíra in the State of Minas Geraes. Eventually, Volta Redonda should supply Brazil with a good part of the steel which must now be imported. U.S. help in this project has won a lot of good will...
...Pacific bases, miscellaneous Grade Bs with the NRA eagle and the motto "We Do Our Part" on the title. Movies rate just after food and mail from home in morale value...
Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...