Word: home-grown
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...domestic clip at ceiling prices, and is unwilling to sell its wool for less. As a result the growers have already lost the civilian market. Textile manufacturers, forced to keep their prices in line with OPA ceilings on civilian goods, cannot afford to pay $1.18 a lb. for home-grown wool, 65% higher than the prewar price. Instead they are buying imported wool, which despite a tariff of 34? a pound sells for only...
...Chicago the managers of the late Sam Insull's Chicago Opera House tried to sell 50,000 books of tickets at $10 apiece to "insure Chicago the finest opera in the world." The plan was to produce eight weeks of home-grown opera, which (according to the Chicago Daily News) would "demonstrate the culture of Chicago, and . . . counteract certain dark spots in the reputation of the city." But by week's end only 216 books had been bought, and it looked as if the only opera Chicago would have would be a two-week season of guesting...
...that the synthetic program was going so well that many substitute plans had been ash-canned, and he himself hoped to go back to his railroad by summertime. The once-ballyhooed guayule plan has been slashed from 200,000 acres to a paltry 15,000; schemes like cryptostegia vines, home-grown rubber trees and dandelions are headed the same way (see p, 54). Then he sent the hopes of U.S. motorists up: "By April 1944 . . . civilians will begin to get a little synthetic rubber...
Almost half of Latin America's 120,000,000 inhabitants are sick with diseases that are not incurable, but from most of which they will never recover. Smallpox has wiped out entire villages; tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid are always rampant. Hundreds of thousands suffer from exotic and mysterious home-grown ailments. Some, like ainhum or "barefoot leprosy," are lingeringly fatal...
...Magnificent Dope (20th Century-Fox) is home-grown Henry Fonda, playing another "Shucks, Ma!" role, which permits him to make one very interesting observation: laziness is the father of invention. His reasoning: In Piltdown days, thirsty cavemen had to run to the river for a drink, scurry back to their caves again. Go-getters didn't mind that chore, but some lazy caveman did. He invented the bucket...