Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales, inventories are being controlled by cutting production. General Electric will lay off about 2,500 TV-set workers for a week because stocks are higher than sales. Bates Manufacturing Co. will close a big synthetic textile mill at Androscoggin, Me. in April; Berkshire Hathaway is running nine combed-cotton mills at 60% to 80% capacity...
...amount of immunity can save him from falling for Fawny May, a cotton farmer's daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck...
...seldom better than the lines, being funny mainly when the action is slapstick--a plant suddenly sprouting in joyful abundance all over the stage is the most bearable example. But the author occasionally leaps out of his verbal rut to pierce a pet political balloon very neatly: "Senator Cotton Joe Somethingorother is in the hospital." "Disease serious?" "Senility." "Then how can he be chairman of our committee?" Seniority." But originality is not rampant even here. Nowhere in the play is the humor more than mildly reminiscent of author John Patrick's lighthearted previous creation, Teahouse of the August Moon...
...this year. By June 30 Agriculture Department will have an estimated $7.6 billion tied up in price-supported commodities, down from $8.3 billion a year ago. Estimate for fiscal 1958 is still lower $7.3 billion. Reasons: lower support levels (last week U.S. cut supports on eight major crops, including cotton), planting controls, food handouts here and abroad...
...trees "like a very large spider monkey" and has "red hair, red eyes, a blue penis, and blue bones." Of course all this crew is active only at night, when the stars-"which are attached to the sky by a little stalk" -push out their heads, led by Grandfather Cotton (the Southern Cross) and Grandfather Many Things (the Pleiades...