Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will steadily drop as more mechanization and automation increase the investment needed to farm. Economists of the Department of Agriculture estimate that the 3,100,000 commercial farms of 1954 may well be 2,000,000 by 1975. But they see rising prices for land and even used equipment making it easy for farmers to sell out at good prices. Those who stay in will have bigger markets. In 1940 each U.S. farmer fed himself and ten others. He now feeds 20 others. In 1975 experts expect it will be about 42. Increasing agricultural efficiency will make the job easier...
...seems to think, is in the president's office of every union. At any rate, by the timely employment of criminal methods, ranging from the well-known bite to a mass snatch of the voting opposition, the hero wins the presidency of the local. Whereupon, in order to make good on his blithe campaign promise of a new union hall, complete with a bar and a bowling alley, he hijacks a crate of watches worth $750,000 and fences them out to big jewelry firms...
...problem is that the picture, like the Broadway play (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954) it is adapted from, is trying to make people laugh at a situation that is not really funny at all. Still, for an hour or so Actor Webb manages to keep the customers with him as he conducts his sly and skillful retreat to respectability; but after that, somehow the joke begins to get tired. Even vicariously, bigamy appears to be exhausting...
Except for this flatulent postscript, Author Menen's sprightly wit and stylish prose make The Fig Tree the choicest summer reading of the winter...
Several qualities combine to make Bad Boy Behan's book a pleasant exception in the usually dreary field of schoolboy or prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...