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...with a road to supply them, Alaska could be held; knew also that with Jap islands blockading Vladivostok such a route might well be the only way to send adequate help to an attacked Siberia. The Army road would do for that and later the Public Roads Administration would grade and realign the rough highway. Then, after the war, the people would come. The small dirty towns would have a new reason for existence, and out of fabulous Alaska could come minerals by the truckload for the factories of the future...
...Aviation gasoline-the first process for producing 100-octane gas, which enabled U.S. to grade up motor performance from...
...seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time of day (see cut) is typical of a fawnhood full of sylvan surprises...
Germans with a few marks to spend trudged to their cinemas last week to get their first official Nazi-eye view of what Americans are like. They saw a bloodcurdling, Grade-B thriller, showing Americans glorying in sin, sadism and corruption. The picture's title: Vom Winde Verweht (Gone With the Wind...
Herr Goebbels' thriller fulfills Adolf Hitler's recipe for Grade-A propaganda: it must be so exaggeratedly simple that the masses will get the point at once. Gone With the Wind is an exaggeratedly simple account of the brutality of American imperialism. A pack of Yankee cutthroats on a nameless West Indian island frame, cuckold and dishonor a simple, honest, hard-working South American doctor...