Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...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...
Charles Coburn outshines Dahling Tallulah in his role of chancellor. The bland innocence with which he asks visiting admirals about the progress of their plots towards his own assassination overshadows even the Bankhead rendition of rather monotonous dialogue...
While in occasional scenes "A Royal Scandal" reaches a pinnacle of Hollywood humor, those who take no great joy in such oft repeated lines as Miss Bankhead's snappy "Shut up!" will find more of tedium in it than delight...