Word: gingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hour. Beside the overall quota, the agreement invoked a complicated system of subquotas aimed at keeping Japan from taking over such minor areas of the U.S. industry as velveteen (only three U.S. companies) and gingham (14 companies). These were precisely the kinds of markets in which Japan, thanks to wages as low as 15½ an hour, had been most successful. In 1955, when U.S. velveteen producers sold only 4,200,000 yds., Japan shipped 6,900,000 yds. Another example was the famous Japanese "dollar" blouse, which so glutted the U.S. that it soon sold for 63½, flooded...
...Curbs. Some Southern states, irked by Government sales of cotton to Japan at 25% discount, pushed for restrictive state laws to check Japanese imports. The Tariff Commission urged presidential approval of a 100% hike in velveteen tariffs, the highest in 27 years; it began studying higher tariffs on Japanese gingham imports, now 48% of U.S. production...
Cork Popper. Meet Ella Beecher, 16 years old and unhappy on a western Kansas farm in 1914. Mother is an Old Testament termagant in gingham, a Puritan who never tires of inveighing against sin, fun and sloth, who can drop the appropriate Biblical thunderbolt at the popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies...
...dizzy to realize that Red Garters is a snappy little spoof of cowboy pictures. Jack Carson plays the sow-bellied sheriff, Rosemary Clooney the lady known as Cal. Guy Mitchell is the man on the white horse, Gene Barry is the hombre on the black. Pat Crowley wears the gingham and blinks purty-like. There are a few harmless songs, some lively skedaddling by the dancers, and everybody seems to be enjoying himself. An O.K. picture, but it helps to be colorblind...
...look at a newspaper photograph and erupted with rage. "Fat and naked," cried the Salem Capital Journal. Mayor Al Loucks's phone was busy ten hours a day with protests. "What we want," said one member of the Lions, "is a statue of a pioneer woman in a gingham dress and a sunbonnet . . not this trash." Said Oswald West, 80, a former governor of Oregon: "The pioneer mothers would rise up out of their graves and pin a horse blanket around the hussy." "The pioneers," snapped Frank Jenkins, editor of the Klamath Falls Herald & News, "liked 'em slimmer...