Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peddling his yarn like an oldtime pitchman, Marinotti personally established new markets in India, South Korea and Russia (where his ability to outdrink the Russians proved a great advantage). To get around customs barriers, he set up subsidiaries in Spain, France, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. To cut rising costs, Snia Viscosa spent more than $30 million on new plants, pushed production of its own raw materials, power and machinery. Marinotti expanded the company's experimental research center, put 400 technicians to developing a full line of artificial fibers to compete on world markets...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitch um, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...Columbia) rises high and could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...
...Anabaptist-turned-Anglican Rector Gates, the 17th century's Harvey Matusow, infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...
Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year...