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While the three men are learning their lesson in civil defense, each scratches his soul for a wartime philosophy. "It's the seventh game in the World Series," the cattleman sighs, "and this time, we're the home team." Amid the atomic destruction, there is also a seamy romance between a cynical but brave newspaperman, Gerald Mohr, and a sullen barfly, Peggic Castle...
Colors & Clothing. The son of a Mexican cattleman who lived in El Paso, Rivera himself learned no English until he was eight (he now speaks seven languages). He knows, better than most El Paso citizens, how formidably high is his city's language barrier, which splits the town into a Spanish-speaking (65%) v. an English-speaking (35%) community. Relatively few El Pasoans speak both. For example, in the city's Bowie High School, under Texas law, English is the official school language. But a large proportion of Bowie students, those of Mexican descent, rarely speak any English...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
...industry had ever thought controls would work without rationing. Now, since meat prices have been going up under OPS while many other prices have been stationary or dropping, everyone from cattleman to retailer thought it was time to dump controls-and get the vast supply of meat on the range to market...
Though meat controls were the cattlemen's main target, the Administration feared that the meatmen were linked up with the potent cotton bloc to blast the entire price control program, now up for renewal by Congress. One cattleman admitted that "our aim is to kill all price controls...