Word: filler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bogart shoots his buddy, he sits by the fire and wonders if he has a conscience, and the camera pans down and the flames fill the whole screen. There is a goodly quantity of classic cowboy-and-Indian manuevers and physical violence but never does it seem like plot filler. Also greatly contributing is Max Steiner's fine, taut, musical score...
...Farmers and their helpers are subject to a mysterious illness called "silo-filler's disease" if they go into a silo soon after it has been filled while fermentation is at its height. In the A.M.A. Journal, two Minneapolis doctors report that the disease, which may be fatal, results from damage to the lungs caused by inhaling oxides of nitrogen. The preventive: "Allow no one to enter a silo for any purpose from the time filling begins until seven to ten days after it is finished...
Fantastic Acceptance." General Cigar claims "fantastic consumer acceptance" for HTL, which is used in place of conventional "binder," the layer of tobacco (12% of the cigar) that is sandwiched be tween inside "filler" and outer "wrapper." General has already licensed its process to other U.S. and foreign cigar makers, many of whom expect HTL to cut the cost of 10? cigars by 40? per 100. American Machine & Foundry Co. has developed another process for homogenized tobacco binder, also has patents on machines to turn out man-made leaf, which cigarette makers shred for filler. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels...
...Barns and silos can be unhealthy places for farmers. Reports presented to the Wisconsin Trudeau Society indicate two diseases-"farmer's lung" and "silo filler's disease"-can have a crippling effect on farm workers. Farmer's lung is a reaction to grain dust, producing chills, nausea and shortness of breath. It has forced a number of Wisconsin farmers to give up farming. Silo filler's disease is potentially more dangerous. Caused by exposure to nitrogen dioxide from fresh silage, the ailment has killed several farm hands in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area...
Needless to say, then, as a source of humor No Time for Sergeants is practically a goldmine. Military life is always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...