Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down Payment (20th Century-Fox), based on the recent novel by John McPartland, puts itself forward as a fairly serious contribution in a field that only a dozen years ago was nothing but a dandelion patch: the sociology of the packaged community...
...Erskine Caldwell. In the Winsor world, the war between the sexes starts early, and the casualty lists are stupendous. One of the combatants is Ruby, who at 16 already has "a rather sagging and accessible look, as if defeat would be natural to her." Ruby wanders into a blackberry patch with Frank, a "strange amalgam of cruelty, license, fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed in on her and there was a brief violent scuffle, with Vivian pounding...
...Mexico's Ambrosia Lake is a misnamed patch of sunbaked, bone-dry limestone where miners have long thought they smelled uranium. The Santa Fe Railway opened a small strip mine near by in 1950, and Anaconda Co. began to work the richest U.S. uranium mine 20 miles southeast of Ambrosia Lake. But no one struck it rich in Ambrosia Lake until 1955. Then a young (31) Texan named Louis B. Lothmann came in with a $10,000 grubstake, two years of college geology and a hunch on where to look. He teamed up with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart...
Thenceforth, as they prepared to patch up the Kremlin's quarrel with Tito, these two were thick in intrigue, though in Belgrade Mikoyan appeared to be only a third man. Asked for his picture, he jerked a thumb at B. and K.: "They're the ones to photograph...
Piecework. In Phoenix, Ariz., annoyed at watermelon-patch pilfering, a farmer posted a hired hand and himself on each side of his patch, waited with shotguns, gave each thief who showed up the alternative of settling out of court for $10 or going to jail, collected as much as $150 in one night...