Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bite. Nevertheless, the excess profits tax, added to a boost in thd corporate income tax, took such huge bites that even a tremendous increase in sales brought only a small rise in net profits. In the booming chemical industry, for example, Union Carbide & Carbon boosted sales 40% but profits rose only 6%, to $29,178,685. Many another company increased its gross but profits dropped. General Electric, with a new high in sales and pre-tax profits, wound up with a 5% drop in its net (to $34,996,395). International Business Machines did the same: its net slid from...
After weeks of crying wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part...
...Homey Type. With A Guest in Your Home (weekdays, 3:15 p.m.), NBC last week set about tapping this flood of tripping words, got even more than it had bargained for. On TV, Versifier Guest projects a personality that has far more bite than his poesy. His assets include a suave platform manner perfected at innumerable Rotary lunches, nimble eyebrows, a vibrant voice that radiates sincerity. Seated at a circular table, looking like a cross between an older Fred Allen and the late O. O. Mclntyre, he recites his poems, listens contentedly to ballad-singing Guitarist Paul Arnold, or makes...
...getting a bit weary, for some of the drawings were as bad as others were good. Among the worst were railroad yards briary enough to be mistaken for bad etchings of French cathedrals. Among the best were two drawings of a girl named Grazielle, done with such directness and bite that Goya himself would not have been ashamed of them...
Among the 100 papers read at Chicago last week giving details of experiments in ACTH during the past year, there were other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration...