Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skyrocketing food prices had made Canadians good & sore. There had been no organized buyers' strikes, but there was plenty of buyer resistance, and it was having some effect. In Vancouver, sales of beef, bacon and fresh pork were down, even after retailers shaved prices a little. It was the same in Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. In Halifax, the City Council took up a resolution urging provincial and federal governments to "do something immediately about the constantly rising cost of foods," and passed it unanimously...
...inflated prices of fresh fruits & vegetables (normally imported from the U.S., now largely banned) there was no remedy yet. Abbott did a little muscle-flexing and told the Prices Board to start "exemplary prosecutions" where prices are "higher than is reasonable and just." While government leaders talked of scaring the daylights out of the profiteers, housewives in Montreal still paid 59? a head for lettuce...
...Glory (by Michael Clayton Hutton; produced by John C. Wilson & the Messrs. Shubert) is a far better thriller after two acts than after three. Though it comes to a thoroughly bad end, it adds up to a fairly good evening. British Playwright Hutton, who has hit on a rather fresh and valid idea for a thriller, may be a bungler of plots, but he is a master of tension. Best of all, a well-knit British cast keeps on acting deftly even after there's little left...
What's most incredible about Harvest of Years is not what happens, but how dull and derived it's all made to seem. Far from being lit up by any lightning flashes of imagination, the play catches hardly a fresh current of air. In how they think and feel-or how the author thinks they think and feels they feel-the Bromarks are not much more than walking bromides...
...show is funny, most of it is fresh, and all of it is fast-moving. It has nice tunes and even nicer dancing. But what really gives it the New York Look are Arnold Horwitt's extremely lively lyrics and brightly satirical skits. One funny ditty has all those who ruin the city's sleep-street diggers, taxi drivers, milkmen, newsboys-bawling...