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Witness Vladimir Andreev, a former Russian camp inspector, estimated the Russian slave-labor population'at between 12 million and 14 million; the total number of prisoners at 20 million. Sixty percent of these, he thought, were political prisoners...
...making autos, Fred helped him turn out a few of his four-and six-cylinder Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine under French license. There Rentschler was converted to aviation. At war's end, he told brother George: "Come hell or high water, I'm going to stay...
After numerous Hollywood tributes to G-men and T-men, the movie is also the first to glorify the federal sleuths of the Post Office Inspection Service (who now. presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten...
...only for the record, it briefly establishes Ladd's romantic prowess in a token dalliance with Stewart's blonde mistress (well played by Jan Sterling). The real leading lady is a nun (Phyllis Calvert) who needs his protection as the only witness to the murder. Inspector Ladd, who usually measures his fellow man with cynical suspicion, soon finds himself softening under the example of her unselfish sense of duty. At this late date, moviegoers should not be surprised to learn that Nun Calvert wears lipstick and coaches baseball...
Cambridge Inspector Charles Sprague inspected the dormitory during spring vacation and said yesterday that he has ordered Radcliffe to install smoke screens on the second floor landings of both staircases...