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...Hominy." Across the state to the west, in land long known as "hog 'n hominy country," Chemstrand's $85 million nylon plant at Pensacola was in commercial production, would soon be turning out 50 million Ibs. of yarn a year. Eight pulp and paper plants were producing at the rate of $230 million a year, having boosted capacity 50% in the past two years alone. Soon to go into production: an $18 million cellulose plant owned by Procter & Gamble...
...Give the President power to cut tariff rates in half on goods that are now virtually excluded from the U.S. market (e.g., angora rabbit yarn, nail clippers), a measure designed to help open new markets for U.S. exports as well as imports...
...Grouse) has a highly topical setting, one that is far more modern than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme. But it is oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact to leak out, the repercussions might wreck...
...allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...
...sons had started nearby farms of their own; Grandma's youngest stayed on with her. The grandchildren, and then great-grandchildren, gave her increasing pleasure. She occupied herself with making worsted pictures (of yarn drawn through netting) until arthritis made handling the needle too difficult...