Word: ambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
...Tide had appeared off the west coast of Florida last January (TIME, Feb. 10). Fishermen first noticed long, wavering streaks of reddish-amber smudging the blue Gulf waters. Floating in the streaks, bellies up, were thousands of dead fish...
Mottled Death. The amber streaks disappeared. Then, in the middle of July, the Red Tide reappeared off Gasparilla Island. Slowly, it worked northward, dissipating mysteriously, as mysteriously reforming. Last week off St. Petersburg, the Red Tide stretched in mottled patches over an area 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. As it spread, fish flopped crazily on the edges and died. Flies buzzed over their rotting carcasses on the beaches. Shore residents suffered headaches, burning throats and coughs...
Property-owners manned shovels and wheelbarrows, held their noses and tried to bury the fish. Beaches were drenched with DDT. At week's end, the Red Tide still mottled the Gulf. The only hope for suffering Floridians was that a storm would break up the amber plague or carry it somewhere else...
...investment if costs went higher and box office stayed up. But if box office skidded much more, it might be hard to make a profit on expensive pictures from the can. 20th Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck, with $12 million already sunk in Forever Amber and Captain from Castile, was worried enough to postpone a third costume spectacle...