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There is a universal felling among Hollywood writers that no musical is complete without heartbreaking tragedy. The phony tearjerker in "When My Baby Smiles At Me" centers around Dan Dailey. He is cast as an old-time burlesque comic and a man who knows the pleasures of rye whiskey. When he also turns out to be pretty much of a goon around the ladies, he loses his wife. Penitent and thirsty, Mr. Dailey proceeds to booze himself right smack into Bellvue. This kind of involved business takes a lot of heavy weepy acting to pull off and Dan Dailey simply...
Sometime at today's game, a fellow in a sweater is going to run his lips over the mouth of a bottle of rye. Another follow with white shoes and a red-head is going to pour four chilled martinis complete with pearl onions, Chances are that six characters wearing straw bats will also consume a case of been during the three hours they occupy their Soldiers Field seats...
Corner or not, General Foods had owned enough rye to scare the daylights out of Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the world's biggest grain trader. Cargill had sold rye short and would have lost its shirt if it could not have bought grain to cover its contracts before the near corner drove the price skyhigh. The court shook its head over the slick trick Cargill, Inc. had used to import Canadian rye cheaply and break the market. Cargill apparently had been able to do so by crawling through a loophole in the law that permitted the import of rye...
With these words, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week wrote an end to one of the war's most frantic commodity scrambles (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946). It cleared General Foods Corp. and Brokers Daniel F. Rice & Co. of charges that they had cornered the rye market. It also ruled out Department of Agriculture orders suspending them from trading...
...Department had based its case on the fact that General Foods had bought 2,000,000 bushels of rye which were about to be dumped on the market-though it and Rice already controlled almost 89% of deliverable rye. The court held, in effect, that this was no cornering move; General Foods was merely following the sound trading practice of protecting its heavy investment in rye against a price slump...