Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liveliest in years. For it was a season that spawned gossip and started talk, that one week provided novelty and the next week made news. The play that won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics' Circle Award-Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -became most famous for telling a dirty joke about an elephant, and then cut it out of the script in the name of decency...
...stay clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...
...filled tunnels in which meat and smoke are oppositely charged so that the hams electrostatically attract as much smoke in four minutes as they would in twelve hours in the smokehouses that are usually used, giving the hams a notably mild and sweet flavor. Price: $3.89 per 3-lb. tin...
Although imports will rise less than gross national product, they will reach $11 billion in 1960, a 26% gain during the decade. Biggest gainers will be bauxite (up 97.5%), crude oil (up 103%) and iron ore (up 300%). Biggest losers: tin (down 5%), wool (down 10%). Assuming that foreign aid ends, exports will edge up only 1%, but they will all be paid for. U.S. capital outflow will have doubled...
...horde of stagehands in the slack time. Warner's venture was only the latest. Among the others: ¶Columbia Pictures, facing up to the dollars-and-cents facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare...