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...wise Naval ordnance plant. It was energetic, ingenious General Mills Inc., which before the war was a peaceful flour miller (Gold Medal, Bisquick, Wheaties). But last week General Mills was running a huge Naval fire control plant, was hard at work turning out complicated gunsights, torpedo directors, smoke-screen gadgets, telescope and periscope prisms...
...time, praise from the Navy and millions of dollars in orders for torpedo directors (1,000 parts, superfine machining), gyroscopic contraptions to offset warship roll, other precision instruments. Meanwhile General Mills put at least one super-secret device into production behind locked and guarded doors -a gadget to smoke-screen an entire city in seconds...
...continental chase ending amidst nature's wonders. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and something from the Los Angeles zoo can portray the species. Between the antics of these over-anxious characters, the screen is filled with dancer John in chase and partner Betty oh-so undecided about the whole thing...
Tennessee Johnson (M.G.M.) is one of Hollywood's grown-up moments. This screen biography of Andrew Johnson, 19th President of the U.S., not only is notably faithful to the facts of his life but actually illuminates a dark chapter in U.S. history. No more adult picture of Washington politics has come out of Hollywood...
...them was orphaned in the 1940 bombings of London, was adopted and brought to the U.S. by War Correspondent William L. White, who wrote a book about her. The other is a girl named Maxine ("Margaret") O'Brien who plays the part of Margaret White in a screen translation of the book. Between the story of the one and the acting of the other, Journey is one of the most appealing pictures...