Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will act as master of ceremonies tonight, when the Office of Student Placement presents the eighth of its conferences on careers, covering medicine, at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop Common Room...
...clearly indicates the popular demand to fill the social vacuum in the House system. The "idea" of the Houses--intellectual contact between faculty and students--suffered greatly when tutorial was beaten to its knees a couple of years ago. The companion theory that a House should bring students with common interests together, has also been almost submerged. Many of the difficulties arose from the war, and the Houses are only slowly feeling their way back to solid ground with such activities as the Eliot House seminars and the language tables at Adams House...
...almost forgotten phrase sounded loudly again last week. It was "seasonal decline." In Akron the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. cut production 30%, and other tire companies followed suit. It was the "normal" winter slump which, before the war, was common to the industry. But it was the first time it had happened since the war. Said Goodyear: ". . . The big postwar demand has been filled...
Chipped. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. sweetened the market for a new 40,000-share common stock issue by announcing a record gross of $795,538,075 in 1947, a 20% increase over 1946. Net profits after taxes were $120,009,760, up 6%. Du Pont worried about "excessive construction costs" in its expansion program, set up a reserve that chipped $1.51 off share earnings, brought them to $9.88 per share...
Farrebique has no professional actors: only the farm family and their neighbors. Watching them, you realize the miserable incompetence of most artists (not to mention politicians) who try to deal with the so-called "common man." The people in this film are neither idealized nor looked down on. They are merely understood, observed and put on record...