Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freeze Squeeze. Cotton men had one solution: drop the price freeze on all cotton below the mill level. In this, the powerful congressional cotton bloc concurred. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar led a group of 17 cotton Senators to the White House to demand that gin cotton be freed as well as farm cotton. Their argument was that the freeze would actually force prices up by keeping down production and encouraging merchants to upgrade their cotton to get better prices. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, who wants a 60% boost in cotton production this year (from...
...finished goods, and tossed it to Harry Truman for a decision. Said he: "I am going to fight this thing through." DiSalle had good reason for his stubbornness. Raw cotton would set a pattern for meat, metals and almost every other basic commodity. If raw cotton were freed of all controls, as the cotton men wanted, DiSalle knew that he would have little hope of controlling the other basic commodities. Without such control, there was no hope of holding the retail price line...
...MILLIONS FIGHT TO SAVE INNOCENT NEGROES," screamed the Daily Worker. "Negroes lynched, Nazis freed, where's our democracy?" chanted a crowd outside Manhattan's city hall. Pickets, led by Author Howard Fast, turned up in the snow before the White House, carrying black-bordered signs: "Seven Negroes framed and condemned by all-white jury." The well-greased Communist apparatus was making propaganda hay out of the Martinsville Seven-with suitable adjustments in the facts...
...freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove that Sherman was right...
...movie should have ended as Marlowe walks out of a border station with fifty rifles pointing at him and chants of "Niva, Niva" coming over the radio in the background. But instead, Marlowe and the dancer are freed. The last scene takes place on a London-bound airplane, where Marlowe and the dancer suddenly become aware of their mutual affections. As the picture comes to a close, the dancer says she is going to be sick. She ought...