Word: caterwauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
...William L. Naylor, senior vice president of Gulf Oil Co., the demand for petroleum should increase at least 80%, and perhaps as much as 100%. Yet before oilmen can enjoy this long-term prosperity, they must first solve their short-term problems. The solution is not so much to caterwaul about imports, or even slack production schedules, but to return to the old-fashioned virtues of a free marketplace in which supply and demand set the price of petroleum products. What the oil industry needs more than anything else is some sharp price cuts to encourage more people...
...biggest guns: Laborite Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison took to the stump for Labor, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden toured Wycombe's village greens in a soaking rainstorm for the Tories, and Winston Churchill sent a rousing message urging the voters not to be taken in by the "wild caterwaul of abuse...