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...Empire Tractor Co. sold 7,000 tractors, actually jeep engines on light metal frames, to an eager IAPI agent. Priced originally at a bargain $1,150, the machines wound up costing $1,400 apiece. The Argentines took only 4,500, claimed that the tractors couldn't even pull a plow. Only four Empire tractors have ever been sold in Argentina, and the current plan is to junk the lot for scrap. Meanwhile, Empire Tractor talks about suing IAPI...
...CONSECRATION : "You simply stand there and record a piece of history. In recording that piece of history, it becomes necessary to recite some words our Lord used; and so ... you do what you came there to do; or rather, you don't do it, you suddenly pull yourself together and realize that our Lord's words, even relaid on such lips as yours, have done...
...bogas are partly to blame for the river troubles. In 1937, they formed a union and loudly protested that their steamer captains did nothing "except eat chicken and pull the whistle cord." Within three years, they got shipowners to boost crew complements from 35 to 50, cut hours, raise wages, provide meals-and extras between meals...
...morning when the wholesalers show up to buy for other markets. Retailers like the Gauthiers arrive later, and for them business does not get brisk until about 8 o'clock. Thereafter they are seldom without customers, who pinch and punch their fruit and vegetables and ask them to pull open the husks of sweet corn to make sure the kernels are full and firm...
...dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite, slap, kick, dance, sing (in Spanish), pull a knife and, of course, exercise her deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives...