Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressional palm, when Michigan's veteran John D. Dingell got the floor to make a brief speech on another subject. He spoke of "the rising tide of resentment and criticism among veterans of World War II because of the issuance of an indistinct, cheap, and unworthy discharge button. . ." Afterwards the debate on manpower went...
Then, as he vomited gasoline and seawater, the monstrous form of a battleship bore down on him. He had managed to get his waterproof flashlight in hand. He pressed the button, waved the light overhead. The battle wagon swept past...
...Button & Co. last June set aside enough paper for 40,000 copies of Van Wyck Brooks's The World of Washington Irving, figuring that it would see them through this year. But the Book-of-the-Month Club took the book, and sales rocketed. Button ran out of paper. (Most publishers of best-sellers exhausted their paper stocks in August or September.) To keep the book in print, and give Author Brooks the benefit of Christmas sales. Button turned over their publishing rights to the 100-year-old Philadelphia publishing house of Blakiston...
...current then flows through a filter which regulates the timbre. This filter is run by a miniature keyboard and works like button-tuning on radio sets; by pressing one button, instead of getting WLW or KNX, the pusher gets cello or clarinet. Next the current flows into the amplifier, controlled by a foot pedal, finally comes out of the loudspeaker. If done properly, it comes out as music...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...