Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agriculture experts hope that a rapid price drop will discourage production. The U.S. corn farmer, already unhappy about this year's low prices, has an answer to that: rising productivity that enables him to grow ever bigger crops for ever bigger total subsidies, no matter what the price...
...justifying their $5,500,000 price tag and then some. Pan American reports more than 90% load factors on its transatlantic jet runs. Next spring, when all but two of the 13 IATA transatlantic lines have jets, so many new seats will be available that load factors may well drop below profitable margins. Three hundred jets will be in operation by the end of the year, and within twelve months jets will be delivering more payload than the 3,400 piston-engined aircraft IATA had in operation at the beginning of this year...
...with them, the British hoped to abandon the old tactics of close fighting and grappling, instead intended to stand off and demolish the Spanish ships with long guns. This plan did not work; gunnery was so imprecise that no captain knew whether a given culverin would dismast his enemy, drop its ball a quarter-mile short, or explode and wreck his own ship...
...Drop of a Hat. A delightful evening with two Englishmen who sing and chatter with the exquisite timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts...
These non-realistic devices are the key to the success of a play that in the reading registers as an honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude...