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...Boards will be permitted to plow as much as half of annual profits back into the company but will have to distribute the other half as the stockholders...
...highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger by opening vast new areas that have never seen a plow. "Right now," he says, "we have only one-half an acre of land under cultivation, per capita. We must double that to one acre...
...film's most striking symbols are the ever-present ships-monsters that plow along polluted waterways and shrink everything to insignificance: men, trees, even a listless orgy in a fisherman's hut. Color dominates another scene in which Harris withdraws moment by moment from a meeting with his men, motivated by associations with a touch of blue paint on the wall...
...play. The plot sizzles along, so intricately contrived that the film is half over before an audience realizes that the characters tangled up in it are a fairly standard crew. Unfortunately, once the puzzle has fallen into place, the movie goes to pieces. Hero Garner and Collaborator Saint plow doggedly through the rubble to discover anew that there is nothing like a tight squeeze for bringing people together, while Rod Taylor, as a Nazi medico imbued with Yankee sportsmanship, reveals that he became a menace only to serve mankind. In the frayed formula ending, Writer Seaton has sabotaged his outlandish...
Fertile Ground. At week's end Barry strayed far from Dixie to attend the 22nd annual National Plowing Contest on a farm 32 miles from Fargo, N.Dak. With 50,000 farmers and their families on hand, the contest was fertile ground for a presidential contender, and Barry promptly sought to plow it. "You know," he told his huge audience, "the nation would be a lot better off if our interim President would quit trying to run your farms and instead clean out his own stables...