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...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
...Continents Strayed. But the expedition may throw light on a more important mystery: the origin of the continents. Some geologists believe that the continents are masses of granite floating in the heavier plastic basalt which underlies both the land and the ocean basins. Since they are floating, they may drift, like infinitely slow-moving icebergs. One theory holds that North and South America have drifted away from Europe and Africa, and that the curving crack between them has widened to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...automobiles appearing on the streets were carved from a plastic substance, and represent only the latest models as would have existed...
Ballooning Profits. Fox & friends gambled $175,000 and borrowed more from banks to manufacture and market Bub-O-Loon. He took in two partners, who got together a company to work out the tricky process of putting the plastic into the tubes, and lined up nine plants in seven cities to turn out the tubes...
From an initial production of 14,000 tubes a day, Bub-O-Loon production last week had expanded to 400,000 tubes daily. The company was already grossing $100,000 a day. As the Vinylite plastic (purchased in bulk from Bakelite Corp.) cost only 14? per 49? tube, a large part of the gross was profit. There was only one hole in the bubble. The formula for turning vinyl plastic into Bub-O-Loon was so simple that Fox did not think it could be patented. Already competitors were turning out more than 100,000 tubes a day. When...