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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some conservative meteorologists are still arguing with Langmuir & Co. Their position is that all weather effects are produced by the "synoptic situation," the complicated interaction of air masses of varying temperatures, pressure and wind velocity. All "artificial" rain, they insist, would have fallen anyhow, without man's help. The July 1949 rainfall in New Mexico, for instance, they attribute to a front moving in from the Gulf of Mexico...
...mobilization. It has divided the U.S. into five areas, each designed to develop its own independent tank production system in case of all-out mobilization. Such decentralization, the department believes, will not only have strategic advantages, but will distribute the economic load of mobilization evenly throughout the country, and help prevent large-scale migration of skilled labor to a few industrial centers...
...support of Actor Cummings' expert clowning and Actress Caulfield's good looks, the film puts Elsa Lanchester and Melville Cooper on their best comic behavior, and adds a living calendar of twelve Petty girls to help make the time pass quickly...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...
...right finishing touch to human wellbeing. But the Lockridges submit evidence that in hard times people are apt to prefer cats. During the Depression, their story goes, hosts of U.S. citizens sold their dogs short and bought cats. This may have been an economy measure. But "I cannot help feeling," the Lockridges quote one social commentator, "that, unconsciously at least, they wanted an animal that would not remind them of bond salesmen...