Word: cones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these crisp, copywriter words, in his best-selling book The Hucksters* (Rinehart; $2.50), Frederic Wakeman described a big advertiser and the fear of losing his account that supposedly haunts all ad agencies. As a onetime account executive for Manhattan's Foote, Cone & Belding he had handled the big American Tobacco Co. account ($3,000,000 a year) a job in which he had had to satisfy American Tobacco's exacting president, George Washington Hill...
...head. But in eruption it is a thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...
...Wright's description-a "steel basket shot with concrete"-the outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...usual musings and mutterings were heard as the last report was returned. Roy Hanson remarked "They just don't appreciate my genius around here." Bob Grinaker was particularly sure that there was "something wrong with the marking system," while Homer Cone groaned again and said it would be worse when they returned the results of Mr. Murphy's chowder...
...Holman Cone is also an optimist this week, as much as it goes against his true spirit. That Disbursing grade ruined his sorrowful outlook on life for three full days; but he soon recovered and from beneath his overcoat and muffler he moans that he "broke down" his health to achieve this grade. He also shudders when he remembers that night he was forced to evacuate his quarters without benefit of slippers...