Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence, OPA haled into court Philadelphia's Chandler Laboratories (ice cream mixes, fruit flavors, etc.). Chandler has an annual quota of 23,396 Ibs. of sugar. Yet, charged OPA. it made a deal with four Louisiana sugar refineries (Vermillion Sugar, Abbeville; Erath Sugar, Erath; Ruth Sugars, St. Martinville; D. Moresi's Sons, Jeanerette) to get cane syrup equal to some 40,000,000 Ibs. of sugar, enough to supply U.S. consumers for two weeks...
...well-known story of Strange Fruit is, to be sure, a steadily enlarging one. The star-crossed love of white Tracy Deen (Melchor Ferrer) and Negro Nonnie Anderson (Jane White) widens out beyond personal tragedy into social tragedy. The rooted Southern prejudices, the rankling inequalities, the violence that leads Nonnie's brother to murder Tracy, the feeling that leads a mob to lynch an innocent Negro for the crime-all these are like pieces in a sociological puzzle...
...mere pieces a few of them are vivid, even explosive. But with its dozen scenes and three dozen characters, Strange Fruit is jumpy, congested, disordered. As theater, it has far too little excitement; as drama, far too little thrust...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...
...should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness; I should flourish as the Cedar of Lebanon that bringeth forth fruit...