Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week U.S. radio script-writing took a short shuffle away from the tradition of heartthrob and supermanliness and toward the amiable vulgarity of Ring Lardner. The show is WOR-Mutual's Fight Camp, a good-natured yarn about a sturdy widow named Ma Corbett (Blanche Ring) who conditions pugs with one hand while keeping them away from her pretty daughter with the other...
Price Hawk Leon Henderson last week nailed his seventh price ceiling on a U.S. industry: cotton yarns. Unlike the ceiling set for steel, machine tools, etc., this time he cut drastically below the prevailing market price (around 52? a pound for combed cotton yarn), imposed a much lower maximum (40? a pound). This, he explained, was "to discourage any notion that an industry can run up prices . . . with the idea that the ceiling will be established at the speculative levels...
...soldiers came up and took him off to a Glasgow hospital to mend his broken ankle. He was removed to "an unspecified destination." The British Ministry of Information identified the airman prisoner. Then it bided its time, waited for the Germans to break its story. When the hallucination-disappearance yarn came from Berlin, Minister Alfred Duff Cooper and his men called in the London newspapermen on Monday night and. dancing with excitement, broke this war's, or any other war's, most incredible tale of desertion. It was as if Harry Hopkins or Anthony Eden had suddenly flown...
...Font's new plant at Martinsville, Va. will double this output, drive still harder against Japan's No. 1 export. Present price of nylon, though reduced 4% last fall, is still substantially higher than silk. But Du Pont engineers say this is unimportant, since the nylon yarn goes farther. Against a cost of about 20? for silk, the nylon in a pair of stockings costs only...
...spite of these difficulties of plot, a very able job of direction manages to gloss over the picture's many weaknesses and to produce what is on the whole a slightly superior sea adventure yarn. The second feature on the double bill is a rather obnoxious attempt to make Bob Crosby lovable like his big brother. The plot is dull, as is Crosby's acting; and the songs (including "Fight ON for Newton High") don't help much. All in all, it's insignificant but unobjectionable...