Word: brer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once upon a time, Brer B'ar was induced to take Brer Rabbit's place in a snare by the promise that he would thus make $1 a minute. Last week, U.S. corporations had Brer B'ar outclassed-and their earnings had almost reached the realm of fable. They were making $33,000 a minute. The Department of Commerce estimated that for the first six months, profits were at an annual rate of $29 billion before taxes, up $8 billion from last year and $4.5 billion above 1943's previous alltime high. Estimated profit after taxes...
...with Brer B'ar, the profit picture held a snare for business generally; its riches were sure to bring increased pressure for lower prices or higher wages, or both. Yet there was little talk of lower prices. The talk-and worry-was all over higher prices. The steel industry had already started its own private inflationary spiral (see The Economy...
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed dialect tales of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), the picture is a curious mixture of live action (70%) and cartooning...
...cartooning is topnotch Disney-and delightful. While playing fast & loose with the well-known personalities of Brer Fox & friends, the animators have kept a faint flavor of the old Frost-Conde-Verbeck illustrations. Perhaps Brer Rabbit's happy romps in the Briar Patch do not look quite as gay and wonderful in 1946 as Joel
...correspondents figured he would obey the impulse to salvage something in November, and that when the time came, he'd be off like Brer Rabbit lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity-just a sailin' down de big road...