Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...
Buttons & Pearls. Pearlers have long known about Australia's big shells. Before World War II, Japanese divers worked the beds, and the export of pearl shells reached $1,000,000 annually. The war wrecked the industry. Though the Australian government tried promoting the shells, the diving is dangerous (five divers were killed in one null bed alone last year), and cheap plastic buttons have all but ruined the market for those of expensive (up to $2 for a set of six nickel-sized buttons) mother-of-pearl...
With that specifically aimed blow at the U.S. Supreme Court and its 1954 school desegregation decision,* Circuit Judge Sebe Dale, 62, last week empaneled the Pearl River County grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
...only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares favorably with...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rehash of one of the Western world's most disastrous defeats in the East, The Fall of China to the Communists in 1949. Pearl Buck, General Albert Wedemeyer and General David Barr are on hand to assist Narrator Walter Cronkite...