Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field prospects are excellent with the return of three veterans Gil Whitemore, Red Tully and Captain Freddy Keyes to third base, first base and short stop respectively. Second base is as yet a wide open fight with Jimmy Lynch having the inside track over Bart Harvey and Oscar Hausserman. Last year's Yardling star, Art Scully, playing basketball at present, may break into the lineup in this position...
...week in a hotel at Augusta, Ga., the two top men in the U. S. cotton business spoke their thoughts on cotton's future. They were the tall, urbane Texan Will Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted...
...having exported its soil's fertility, for which no price, however free or however protected, is high enough. Said he: "There is many a gullied hillside in our south eastern States today that is being plowed by a scrub mule, trying to raise cotton in competition with Oscar Johnston's mechanized Pine Delta plantation. It can't be done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear the stream below as long...
Sirs: Roosevelt's pre-election pledge, "Keeping the war away from our shores," has been so successful that, now, we must extend the shores to reach the war. C. OSCAR STONE Cut Bank, Mont...
...position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will put on a weekly hour-long coast-to-coast program of ASCAP songs over some 110 independent stations. Produced by Billy Rose, with music by a 26-piece orchestra under Director Russell Bennett, singing by a mixed chorus...