Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rural Southern plants) and abolition of the device of "learners' permits," which allow even lower pay. Federal-tax amortization benefits, he says, have been "disproportionately granted to Southern plants." Federally regulated shipping rates "discriminate unduly" against New England (although he admits that New England is badly located to exploit the big new markets of the Southeast and Southwest). And worst evil of all, in Kennedy's book, "one of the most obviously unfair inducements offered to those [industries], considering migration, is the tax-free plant built by a southern community with the proceeds of federally-tax-exempt municipal...
Houses for $850. Though Comino has continually enlarged his London plants, built a new factory in Belgium and licensed Chicago's Acme Steel Co. to manufacture Dexion in the U.S., he has never-been able to catch up with demand. It will take years to exploit Dexion's biggest market, housing. A three-room house, like the experimental models shipped to Greece, could be erected in 160 man hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such...
...with a young married woman, it nevertheless sharpens its poignancy. The sympathetic portrayal of the lovers' parents, seen only dimly in the book, greatly enriches the plot. But more important, the film strips the story of the irritating elements of the book: Radiguet's smug introspection and pride of exploit. Shifted into the character of the schoolboy, rather then coloring the whole account, the immaturity and egoism of the young lover appear in proper perspective...
...Hungary at last, he joined the Magyars and executed his most famous exploit after accepting a challenge of the Turkish commander to single combat. At the first charge, Smith's lance, he says, "passed the Turke throw the sight of his Beaver, face, head and all, that he fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms...
Unfortunately the film fails, like most of its predecessors, to exploit Jerry's unusual gift for "gallows laughter," the rich, traditional Jewish humor of the schlemiel* which he is sacrificing for the easy money in pun and jargon and in the barefaced leer...