Word: comstockism
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...hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
Last spring Hobbs and Comstock discovered that the Army was shipping heavy steel huts all the way from Quonset, R.I. to the Arctic. These huts were not too satisfactory. The partners at once thought of making plywood and Masonite huts right in Seattle. In 21 days they designed their round, spruce-ribbed hut, sold the Army an educational order for 85. The first ones turned out so well that by September they had Army encouragement to build a new plant. They raised $100,000 to buy an abandoned shipyard and an adjoining gas station, built...
...problem really plagues Hutmakers Hobbs and Comstock. Despite more business than they can handle, their gross profit per $1,200 hut is so low (about 1.7% on sales) that they will earn nothing at all even on their tiny capital investment unless the war lasts at least two years more...
...Armed Forces. He tried to see ahead. Editors on the Eastern Front, Editors on the Western Front, Editors--. Now who will fill the flowing bowl and, more important, mother the Freshmen, he wondered. Who would discover the WAVES while they were still but ripples in the caves of Comstock? Who could smell out the wiles of the Satevepost soon enough to scoop PM? Who could squeeze out tears so well as Dan, describing the PBH mites waiting wetly for their mothers to finish defense work? Who would replace Hal and Roy in shoveling the track from Plympton Street...
...story for that: the lecturer got so darn sick of the plodding, noting, reactionless class that he dove off into a fantastic peroration. His class ended with fancy flying far from fact in a completely imaginative vein. And the Radcliffe students calmly took down every word. But, as Miss Comstock points out, Radcliffe need not worry about its academic reputation, despite the girl who wondered to her professor why she didn't get good marks: "I take absolutely voluptuous notes...