Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick and Harry is a hilarious and nearly perfect vehicle for the Miss Rogers' Tillie-the-Toiler talents. But much credit belongs to the artful direction of balding, hawk-faced Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother, My Favorite Wife), who never lets go the reins until the horse is in the barn. Another Hollywood youngster (26), Paul Jarrico, is author of the story and the script. Private Kanin, now 28 and in the U.S. Army, says: "Anybody can direct a good picture if he's got a good script...
...Fort Monmouth, N.J., where the Signal Corps has 2,000 pigeons in training, Lieut. Thomas MacClure will not have far to look for his pursuit birds. The best U.S. native hunter is the peregrine, or duck hawk, a long-winged bird of prey that has nested for centuries in the cliffs along the Hudson, now rests also atop the skyscrapers of Manhattan, preys on pigeons in the parks...
...Price Hawk Leon Henderson last week nailed his seventh price ceiling on a U.S. industry: cotton yarns. Unlike the ceiling set for steel, machine tools, etc., this time he cut drastically below the prevailing market price (around 52? a pound for combed cotton yarn), imposed a much lower maximum (40? a pound). This, he explained, was "to discourage any notion that an industry can run up prices . . . with the idea that the ceiling will be established at the speculative levels...
...preached that inspiring message in more than 500 of them. Some of these districts are high in the mountains, and he had to travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would tell cheering crowds not to get enthusiastic, would say: "Watch the pot on your own stove." If conditions got better, keep Muñoz Marin...
...food. Their food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...