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...pepped up Ministerial film production by weeding out the amateurs, enlisting Britain's best directors, actors and technicians for a week at a time to help with their 500-foot glimpses of the country at work & play in wartime. They turn out their shorts for $2,000 each (one-tenth the cost of the cheapest Hollywood "quickie"). To sell the glories of factory work they show oomph girls assembling shells in a munitions plant...
Dale Curran's descriptions of theatrical and ballroom jazz are excellent. Because he likes true jazz so well, he is not one-tenth so good at telling about it. He avoids, to be sure, those indulgences in technological slang with which customers embarrass the second trumpeter. But he does let Jeff Walters say what Jeff Walters could never have said: "The world needs beauty...
Breast Cancer. About one-tenth of all cancers occur in the breast. Although mammary cancer is a preventable, curable disease, only one-fifth of the victims are saved. Reason: if not caught in time, the cancer spreads to shoulders and lungs...
...Only one-tenth went straight...
...Pacific collected its usury. Supposed to protect the lender against theft or destruction of autos (which Pacific accepted as security), typical hazard charges were $30 on a $70, six-month loan (the equivalent of 133% simple interest), $88 on a $300, one-year loan (53%). Pacific would then reinsure cars with an insurance company at rates averaging one-tenth the hazard charges...