Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract soon after the Chinese Reds moved into Korea two years ago. Fairchild had developed the plane, and said it had plenty of idle capacity to turn out more. But at the time, the Air Force was looking for a second source of supply for critical equipment. It wanted Willow Run but the only way it could get it-and thus prevent the Army from snatching it for tank production-was to take K-F in the package. There was another reason for giving K-F a contract: the RFC had just sunk another $25 million in the company...
...Bridges charges hit the papers last week, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser placed ads in ten cities saying that Bridges had "found it impossible to keep any of several appointments" made to discuss K-F's side of the case. Kaiser denied the "inference . . . that the Willow Run operation is inefficient," and demanded a chance to prove it in a congressional investigation...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...
Collectors' Note: Okeh has reissued some famous oldtimers: I'm Confessin' (Louis Armstrong); Willow Weep for Me (Cab Galloway); Wiggle Woogie (Count Basic); Gimme a Pigfoot (Bessie Smith...
...study of the forms of possession which find root in the Puritan dogma. It is tragedy in its deepest most elemental sense. Each character seeks justification for his cruelty to the others by his fear of the wrath of an Old Testament God. An elemental force drives each to "Willow everything," to consume love and property in the desire for self increase. But through all the crude violence and apparent pessimism of the play there arises an intense affirmation of the dignity of man if not of his values. O'Neil's peculiar brand of tragedy can see the triumph...