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...daughter of a Swedish Army major, who retired to become a Stockholm publisher, auburn-haired, 25-year-old Viveca Lindfors is tallish and square-shouldered, with Tallulah Bankhead's big, mobile features and Garbo's own throaty purr. An ambitious student who used to steal scenes ("Oh, that is bad thing to do!") when her director wasn't looking, versatile Viveca (rhymes with "terrific, ah!") has been for five years one of Sweden's top stage & screen stars, playing nearly everything from Shakespeare to Maxwell Anderson...
...cotton cost only 5? a pound. But in 13 years the South's cotton patriots, like Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead, have pumped up the price by loan, subsidy and parity program till it has no relation to demand. Now the South is belatedly discovering that high-priced cotton is something people can do without...
...Commodity Credit Corp., which last year held more than half of the U.S. carryover by virtue of its loans to cotton farmers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Bankhead Amendment (and which thus keeps cotton off the market to keep the price up), has done most of the exporting for the U.S. since war's end. It has found cotton so hard to sell that it is now arranging to ship some 1,000,000 bales to Germany and Japan to get their spindles going again. But CCC kept mum on the price, gave no hint of when...
...Cotton. The OPA authorized a 10% increase in the manufacturer's price of virtually all combed cotton fabrics. Reason : the Bankhead Amendment, which recently raised the parity price of cotton. Eventually, the boost will be passed on to consumers...
...Public Be Damned. With a rueful bow to the powerful cotton-bloc lobby, the Department of Agriculture last week lifted the parity price for raw cotton to a new high of 21.58? a Ib.-the dizziest peak since 1920. The Department was forced to boost the price under the Bankhead Amendment, which requires adjustment of the parity price. Uultimately (and at pyramided price increases) this sop to cotton growers' inefficiency will be passed on to the consumer...