Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more thought than its rivals into developing the new process, the Trib had gotten the best results. In news coverage and news play, also, it was still Chicago's liveliest sheet. Nevertheless, its circulation had slumped-from 1,010,000 at the strike's outset to around 950,000 last week. Nobody knew just why. Best guess: now that there is little change in editions, many readers who had once bought an evening and a morning Trib are buying only one copy...
...just made. Two of the 127 were dead, killed in World War II; the survey found that the survivors seemed perfectly normal and apparently well equipped for life beyond college. The most unusual thing about them was that an unusually large number (55%) were taking postgraduate work in universities around the world, preparing to be doctors, ministers, or professors...
National's stock, originally issued at $40 a share, had been selling at around $200 a share until last week. Then Broker James M. Johnston, representing an undisclosed customer, suddenly offered $280 a share. For $2.9 million he reportedly snared 80% of National's stock. A few days later, the directors eased President J. Frank White up into the board chairmanship and elected a new president, Barnum L. Colton, who was brought over from the National Savings and Trust Co. There he had been a vice president and had handled the United Mine Workers' deposits, chiefly...
...metal, leather and other shiny surfaces ($2.95 for the 12-oz. size); another releases a phfft! of chemicals to eliminate household odors ($1.89 for the 12-oz. size). This summer Bridgeport will have a bomb loaded with suntan lotion, and before long, one loaded with paint for touching up around the house. Also in the works are gadgets which might some day become landmarks of 20th Century civilization: spray bombs for perfume, hair lacquer and under-arm deodorants...
...time we got down to specifics," complained one executive. "Instead of playing around with the birds, bees and flowers, why doesn't the NAB dish out the facts of life?" NAB's Richard Doherty replied with some hard TV facts: an average TV station costs nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight...