Word: polk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these troubles, the industry felt that the worst was about over and that prices could be boosted to make up for some of the recent increases in material and labor costs. Said Sol Polk, Chicago retailer: "Today there is no greater value than a television set. I'm selling sets for less than I think I can replace them for in six days." Throughout the industry, business was picking up. Magnavox, in a strong position because of its policy of sticking to higher-priced table models and consoles, reported its first-quarter unit sales were...
...three-weapon (foil, épée and saber) Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship in The Bronx was still undecided after 593 bouts. In the 594th and final bout of the tournament, Navy's Larry Polk won a slashing saber victory over Columbia's Joe Bloom (5-4), saved the team title for the Middies...
FRONT-RUNNING FORD officially took lead in 1957 road race by dint of year's first R. L. Polk registration figures. Final score for January shows sales of 110,454 Fords, v. 101,116 Chevrolets, while Plymouth captured third place from Buick...
Raffish characters and an offbeat setting can sometimes save a novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps...
...daughter. Trouble is that Fawny is a born homemaker. Looking at the rich soil around the deserted house she wants them to buy, she exclaims: "Plant you a teacup handle here, next dinnertime you'd cut a set of china." Uncle Chunk has long since warned Polk: "A rolling stone don't gather no mortgages." So off they roll, to the Southwest, to California, wherever a crop is making. Author Williams' world is an inevitable reminder of John Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees in The Grapes of Wrath, but she has incurred no literary debt. Hers...