Word: grander
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Effect. As statisticians began making "horseback appraisals" of who would pay what, the new bill's grander follies began to take shape. Most startling example was the contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying...
...Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work on Zorina. This sinister frolic is almost as sure to please U. S. cinemaddicts as the work of its three principal...