Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES (334 pp.)-Edited by Martha Foley-Houghton Mifflin...
...American Woolen's profits tumbled 19.8% in 1949's first quarter, President Moses Pendleton bravely tried to prod waiting buyers into action by boosting prices. Last week, conceding that his bluff had been called, Pendleton trimmed an average 9% off the price of fabrics for men's & women's clothes. That meant, the trade estimated, that men's suits next spring would be $2.50 to $5 cheaper...
Some textile men, who know how thin American Woolen's profit margin has been, doubted if the new prices would do much more than let the company break even. But Pendleton hoped to get some relief from bigger volume. In any case, it would cost American Woolen less to keep its mills in operation than to shut down for lack of orders while maintenance costs...
Meanwhile American Woolen and other weavers had a new kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
...shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...