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...Lady Takes A Chance (RKO-Radio) takes quite a few. It takes a chance with one more treatment of a well-worn story-pattern (the Cowboy & the Lady), and emerges from the scrimmage with a broad grin to offset its black eye. It takes a chance with making the cowboy (John Wayne) rather more than a nice boy, the lady (Jean Arthur) rather less than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short...
...where the annual budget is $6,642,000. Brazil has lent Paraguay money for improvements, given the land-locked country use of Santos as a free port. And Argentina, which always considered Paraguay a satellite province, has come to life, canceling the 1870 war debt and increasing imports to offset U.S. and Brazilian influence...
...ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...
...good scare last week. He thought there would certainly be a serious egg shortage, come December. Next day, OWI struggled to issue a soothing explanation: 1) civilians will get only a third as many storage eggs (one million cases) as they got last year, but the loss will be offset by a 13% rise in egg production; 2) more people are eating eggs these days and boosting the demand; 3) "this is just the sort of situation that gives rise to black markets...
Although Ramirez said, upon assuming control, that he would give the government back to the politicians when it was cleaned up, that day seemed more remote than it had a month ago. To offset discontent over restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly and press, the Government rolled back rents, set certain price ceilings and exposed some graft in the deposed Castillo regime...