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When the second Comet I airliner in three months crashed off Italy, all England felt the blow to British national pride. But it found consolation in the sleek new Comets II and III hatching in De Havilland Aircraft Co.'s factories. Trumpeted Lord Beaverbrook's Evening
...busy men inside bothered to spell it out, could read: SPORTSMEN AT WORK. Inside, periodically deafened by the takeoff thunder of DC-6s and Globemasters, crews of men in blue coveralls worked lovingly this week over three low-silhouette (40 inches) automobiles with an arresting look of sleek power...
Unlike the manufacturers of these famed European cars, the builder of the sleek blue-and-white racers at Palm Beach is not in business to make money or to advertise the qualities of his regular production models. At 47, Briggs Swift Cunningham of Palm Beach and Greens Farms, Conn, is an outstanding example of a vanishing breed: the millionaire amateur who devotes his time and money, his enthusiasm and his burning energy to the pursuit of a breakneck sport...
Photographers' flashbulbs and shopkeepers' eyes popped in happy unison as the sleek green Cunard luxury liner Caronia tied up at a Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...
...issues, private and public, find reconciliation in the climax as the com pany gives up and the workers win. The dice, without doubt, are loaded. Every boss who crosses the screen is either a sleek deceiver or a leering flunky, and the police are slavish doers of the corporate will. Nevertheless, the film, within the propagandistic limits it sets, is a work of vigorous art. It is crowded with grindingly effective scenes, through which the passion of social anger hisses in a hot wind; and truth and lies are driven before it like sand...