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...only do they need Argentine beef, but they have large investments in handling it. Nevertheless, they may well have outbluffed the Argentines. Or the British may have made the most of Nazi connections with high Argentine officials (rumor mentioned even Perón himself). In any case, the sudden break of relations was a welcome relief for the British, since it made an embargo unthinkable, left British interests intact...
Zany Clark, of the sudden grrrr, the steady leer, the carousel-horse lope, is cast as a numbers racketeer hiding out from the FBI in Mexico. Pursuit of that fine fiction drives him into some startling new disguises. As a strolling musician he flutes and frolics; as a bucktoothed Indian squaw (see cut) he joins in a happy warble, Count Your Blessings...
...wool stockpile problem at Denver last week was only a forerunner of many other and much larger problems that will result from the monstrous stocks of raw materials and finished goods in Government warehouses when war ends. The woolgrowers' nightmare is a sudden end of the war, which will scuttle prices if the foreign wool is dumped on the market. Old-timers in the West have not forgotten that prices plummeted to 17? a lb. after the last war ended...
...Jesus Factor." In the next attack, and in later ones, no planning will ever carry through with mathematical exactitude. There will always be unforeseen reactions from the enemy, freaks of weather, unaccountable failures of command, sudden collapses of men in the stress of battle. Said a Navy strategist in Pearl Harbor : "We can plan up to a point...
...that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...