Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theories and adapt them to quantity production." Brick-hard, brick-size frozen food packages became a staple in U.S. kitchens. Many of the housewives who used the product never knew that Birdseye (spelled Birds Eye on General Foods packages) was a man. But, they paid him the greater compliment of using frozen foods so enthusiastically that in 1955 the industry that Clarence Birdseye had pioneered for $7 soared to nearly $2 billion gross, shared by 1,551 companies* packaging some 2,000 brands...
Lubell claims no statistical precision for his technique ("decimal points in a polling percentage are a pretentious farce"), but he believes that he misses no major trends or issues. Other newsmen have begun to pay him the compliment of imitation. Several Scripps-Howard papers, which run his national pre-election survey, are getting his help in mapping local surveys by their own reporters. Almost invariably when he finishes an interview, he is asked: "Who are you going to vote for?" Though the last Who's Who lists him as "Ind. Dem.", Lubell explains that he no longer registers, votes...
...known as "We, the People," "The Thundering Herd," "Bureau of Missing Persons." A supermarket of finance with 104 partners in no cities, Merrill Lynch handles everything from commodities to 10% of all trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Founder Charles Edward Merrill always took the gags as a compliment. Over the years, his driving ambition was to convince the small investor that he should buy a stake in the U.S. economy. Said Merrill: "America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots, where it should be, and not in some mythical Wall Street...
Even Esquire has paid the ultimate compliment by shedding some of its latter-day respectability. But Esquire still cannot keep abreast. In its August number Playboy printed four pictures of Cinebabe Anita Ekberg in the nude, taking the edge off Esquire's September portfolio of Ekberg with a few clothes...
Last week bourbon-proud Kentucky, which has been casting envious eyes on Tennessee's Jack Daniel's for years, paid it the ultimate compliment. Louisville's Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. (Old Forester, Early Times) bought out Jack Daniel's stockholders and its Motlow brothers, who owned 55% of the company, took control of the distillery. The price: $20 million in cash. Jack Daniel's 54-bbl. daily production is only a drop in Brown-Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown...