Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nice Try. In Kansas City, Mo., R. D. Coleman, arrested for popping away at the sky with his BB gun, failed to persuade the judge that he was just trying to stir up a storm...
...week's end, gusty rains drenched the Mississippi River valley from northern Louisiana up to Illinois. That was the last of Emma. But this week, new storms were brewing in the Gulf and in the Caribbean. The Gulf storm was boring in on wounded southern Florida...
...sandy, sun-scorched Yucatán, men had no eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...last week's storm warnings foreshadow another economic hurricane like 1920's? If so, Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine. With a little help from the industrial-minded Mexican Government, in subsidies and export-tax concessions, Yucatán's factories might get a share of such business. The serried rows of agave would still stretch green across the Yucatán flatland...
...objections are bound to seem captious. There could be no objections to parts of the movie. The songs are pretty, Newcomer Janet Leigh is pretty to look at and there are some rather pretty bits of deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere magazine illustration. Most of Rosy Ridge's pleasant...