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Events scheduled for the prop school meet include the 100, 220, 440, 880, mile, low and high hurdles, high jump, pole vault, and discus...
...ingenuous little tale might easily, and happily, have been pretty well lost. That it is not lost is due in part to plausible and polished performances by Bowman and Hayworth, but mostly to British-born Producer Victor Saville's excellent direction. With a shrewd use of every sentimental prop that greasepaint and a war-torn London can provide, Saville has told his story simply, with a minimum of gush, and considerable authenticity...
...plea for more money. He bluntly recommended that subsidy payments for agricultural products be stopped after the war. Thus Jones served notice on the farmers that the time was fast approaching, as far as he was concerned, when they could no longer look to the taxpayer as a financial prop to support agricultural prices at artificially high prices. But what every Senator knew was that Administration policy can change. The outcries of the farmers, or a crush of postwar food surpluses, might make Administrator Jones's warning more of a nostalgic bow to free markets than a firm announcement...
Pilots and air crews drew the public cheers for the dramatic Saipan-based B-29 bombings of Japan. But airmen themselves had a special hurrah for the prop men of the show, the Army's aviation engineers. In building bases for the Superforts, they had performed one of the great engineering feats of World...
...next step is up to France's new Minister of Finance, René Pleven. Known better as a colonial administrator than financier, he nevertheless has a solid industrial background, the deft hand which will be needed in dealing with the public. And he has one sturdy prop: the U.S. army in France is, in effect, a huge tourist army. The U.S. Treasury now buys francs to pay these troops, supplements the francs with invasion currency, also redeemed by the U.S. Thus, France is building up its dollar credits at the rate of millions monthly. (In 1937, U.S. tourists spent...