Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stockholders, Procter & Gamble Board Chairman Richard R. Deupree last week preached a short sermon on U.S. industrial efficiency. Said he: "With wages and taxes equivalent to 40 times the wages and taxes of 66 years ago, with raw material prices three times what they were, a cake of soap [Ivory] that cost 5? in 1885 costs less than 10? today. That's a solid contribution to the American standard of living...
...they keep it up, they will sell close to 6,000,000 records before the year is over-and that's tops in Tin Pan Alley's books. One secret of their success is a tape recorder on which Paul dubs multiple guitar and vocal passages, layer-cake style. The result is a reverberating volcano of polyphony which Paul calls "The New Sound...
...Bigger Cake & Lingering Controls The clash between the young Tories and the "flannel group" is shown in Tory policy, as set out in convenient lack of detail for the election. Churchill himself is suspicious of new approaches to economic problems, and recently growled at a specialist: "You economic experts always make it sound so complicated. After all, it's only barter." (Deep and disgusted Churchillian accent on the last word.) In emphasis, the split among Tories is as sharp as it is between Attlee and Bevan. The young men, for example, want to attack monopolies immediately. There...
...older men mean to cut taxation first by reducing government expenditure and then by gradually building up production. The young Tories want to go all out for increased productivity from the start: "We are much more interested in having a bigger cake than in reallocating this one." The divergence does not lie simply between the young and impatient and the old and wary. Some of the latter are not fully aware of the importance of directly associating the workers with their efforts, and perhaps underestimate the extent to which Britain can still be galvanized by inspiring leadership in a well...
...Radcliffe girls have their cake and eat it with "Harvard men," observes an article in the current issue of Madamoiselle...