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...more men; stiffer competition within the eight weight classes would result in better teams which would, in turn, attract even larger crowds than those under the present system do. Last year, wrestling drew the third largest number of spectators, and was one of the very few sports which helped offset the huge H.A.A. deficit. Spectator interest as well as participant interest would be enhanced if wrestling were a major sport, for the sport can be a thrilling one if the fan knows what it's all about...
...visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop it once was. When the third anniversary of Perón's popular election fell...
...Hathaway (The House on 92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about off the coast of Southern California. To offset this handicap, canny Skipper Hathaway has concentrated on character study, backed by careful casting and straightforward camera work...
Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
...report that sounded like the bell for a fourth round of wage boosts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said last week that factory wages since V-J day had increased an average of 33% an hour and 30% a week but that "rising prices have more than offset the increase." But the New York Times thought BLS had let go a low blow. It thought wages and purchasing power should be compared with those of January, 1941 (the base date of the Little Steel formula). "We find," said the Times, "that while the cost of living has risen 73%, average...