Word: canings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dusen had been a nonstop churchman, heading Union at its pinnacle of influence. He continued to be active in retirement until he suffered a stroke five years ago. Thereafter he had little pain and could walk with a cane, but his speech was largely incomprehensible-a severe frustration for a man who had had great verbal skill. Although his wife had undergone two hip operations and suffered from arthritis, she was able to take a trip to Britain a month before her death. The Van Dusen pact, in other words, was not made under the extreme conditions of terminal illness...
...daughter is erratic, combining a marvellous sleepwalking trance and deceptive, wide-eyed childishness, with sudden, apparently unaccountable changes of mood. The opportunist son-in-law (Don Guiney) is portrayed as too much of an arch-villain, overly conspiratorial, first with one side and then the other, weilding his cane about like a swagger stick. The pity that Strindberg felt for such a pathetic victim of the vampire mother is buried under Guiney's excessive eye-shifting and oiley immorality...
Domingo, and Bluhdorn reassured Coppola that "the rain is good for my sugar cane." It was not so beneficial for Pacino, who caught pneumonia, forcing a month's delay. Principal photography was finally completed in nine months, but the problems had just started. Editing, always a trial, threatened to go out of control. With whole plots altered or dropped, there was substantial doubt that the film could meet its opening dates at the theaters...
...Council on Wage and Price Stability held two days of hearings about sugar prices. The council, which has no authority to order price rollbacks, carefully refrained from fixing blame. But it did present a study made by its staff that concluded that all sections of the sugar industry -cane and beet growers and refiners -have made "very large windfall gains." For example, Amstar Corp., the nation's largest sugar refiner, has recorded a 221% rise in profits so far this year, and Great Western United Corp., the biggest U.S. beet-sugar processor, has raised its profits by a spectacular...
False Rumors. Refiners insist that much of the price rise has been forced by the soaring cost of raw sugar, especially cane, and that their bulging prof its are largely one-shot gains resulting from the sale of inventories that have risen in value enormously. Indeed, the basic causes of the price runaway go deeper than any possible profiteering...