Word: bracketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Combining penny-pinching and trail-blazing is no soft task. Jack, the jovial, flashily sport-coated Warner in charge of production, has spent years policing the 120-acre lot at Burbank, making certain that no unnecessary lights are burning and that everybody is at work. Insisting that even high-bracket writers check in every morning by 9:30, Jack also knows how to deal with unimaginative studio types. He dreaded having to explain to Warner salesmen in 1935 that he planned to film a tony biography of Louis Pasteur. Paul Muni, he announced tersely, would be starred in a picture...
...York Times, among others, had hired the monsignor as Vatican legman. He turned in such a sloppy, inaccurate report of an important Papal speech that the Times's Rome bureau chief Milton Bracket had to repudiate the story next day. Eventually Bracker fired him, as did almost every U.S. news service. Pucci had handed the A.P. and other agencies a story that the then Msgr. Francis Spellman was planning a trip to the Middle East to review the troops; it turned out that he had read "Middle West" in a French newspaper and got the story wrong...
...clothes driers. As they are made out of pressed steel, Murphy already had the know-how. The fact that Pressed Steel is entering a highly competitive field against several well-entrenched firms doesn't bother Ernest Murphy. Says he: "We've got to be in the top bracket. I've no time to waste on anything else...
...rewarded with 50 cents an hour with the proviso that their pay will be raised to 60 cents an hour after 18 consecutive months of service. Few men are willing to remain in Cambridge for the five unbroken academic terms which are necessary to reach this high income bracket...
...Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...