Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backwoods preacher once explained his homiletic methods thus: "Ah tells 'em what Ah's gwan to tell 'em. Then Ah tells 'em what Ah done told 'em." The Eisenhower Administration has used a roughly equivalent brand of economic preaching, and last week, in his annual Economic Report, the President told how well it had worked in stemming last year's "contraction" (i.e.,mild recession...
...acquiring everything from better ashtrays to air conditioners. In general, the president and board chairman, who get the best of everything anyway, are rarely involved; the struggle takes place among the vice presidents, and below. A few years ago, a Dallas company set up a new subsidiary with five brand-new vice presidents installed in identical offices. Everything was peaceful until one used his expense account to replace his single-pen set with a two-pen set. Within four days all five worked their way up to three-pen sets. Then they went on to bigger and flossier names...
...Richard L. Neuberger went off to Washington last week with a brand-new tuxedo and Muffet (to keep him company until Maurine resigns from the legislature in May), he had the grudging admiration and good wishes of Oregon's Republicans. Said former National Committeeman Ralph Cake: "While I believe he's a fellow who doesn't want to go too deeply into things at times, I think it's a certainty he will try to do everything he can for the state and the region...
...alltime grossers" in the U.S. and Canada, according to Variety's 49th anniversary issue, now include a couple of brand-new titles (Cinerama, White Christmas). The list...
...Lewarch, "I'd be one happy man." All over the U.S. home owners with garages built 20 years ago complained that they could no longer close their garage doors on the new monsters. "The new Cadillac is a swell car," said a Los Angeles supersalesman of a smaller brand, "but will you have enough money left over to buy a new garage to fit it?" Some people cut sections out of their garage walls, let bumpers protrude. Complained a Chicago motorist: "My garage fits so close, it's like the skin on a grape...