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Meanwhile, last week A.P. did not lack for a Grade-A Allen story. With news of his hospitalization arrived his delayed story of a seven-hour battle "off Libya" between Nazi planes and a squadron of British destroyers and cruisers. Machine-gunned by a dive-bomber, his cruiser was repeatedly shaved by big bombs and torpedoes as it twisted in emergency turns and pumped a "hell of fire" at the enemy. The cruiser apparently was finally torpedoed, perhaps by an Axis submarine, and sank. Rescued after 45 minutes in the water, he came through luckily with only painful bruises...
...stamping out discs 24 hours a day, and not only because of Christmas. Jukeboxes take 40% of their output, and lower record prices (35? and up for popular records; $1 for 12-in. concert records, plus 5% tax) have tapped a new market. In spite of the present low grade of popular tunes, recent estimates made 1941 the industry's all-time high year-120,000,000 discs. Current records...
...with all transport agencies overburdened, the rails may gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...
...past appearances on the American screen, she displays nothing in this performance that cannot be found on any page of the Sears, Rocbuck catalogue, while that famous rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick...
Mica. India is the chief world source of high-grade mica splittings, indispensable in electrical equipment. The U.S. is using 8,000,000 lb. a year, practically all for defense. U.S. stocks are unknown...