Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made by pressing or melting the powdered metal into ingots or billets, then forging, machining or extruding it. The new casting method may permit not only more intricate shapes but also lower costs, since the process may cut the number of steps necessary. But the major U.S. moly producer, American Metal Climax, Inc.. cautioned that it may be some time before the casting method becomes commercially feasible...
...Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening, Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater. The white trash became black trash, and caught fire. Anna moved to Broadway, played to packed houses for more than two years (1944-46). But Playwright Yordan, convinced that it was his characters and not their color that had made the play a success, decided that...
Miracle and Reward. In the meantime, Preedy flourishes when the spirit moves him, goes into decline when his mystical source fails him. Powerful newspaper people quarrel about him, try to decide whether to back him, attack him, or ignore him. The skeptical, hopelessly crippled daughter of an American millionaire is brought to him; the girl rises to her feet and rewards Preedy handsomely. But when Preedy persuades another woman to ignore doctors and her child dies, his own committee members begin to turn against...
...equality the U.S. opiate of the classes? Does the modern American believe that a man's grasp should exceed his reach, or what's an expense account for? Is the U.S. in danger of being "a waist-high culture"-in which the best as well as the worst aim their arts and products at the middle...
...Editor. Equable tempered, well wrought and carefully thought out, The Waist-High Culture is more inquiry than indictment, utters its qualms with conviction and its convictions with some qualms. It is not a call to the cultural barricades, but an invitation to ponder and reflect on the occasionally wayward American...