Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RESERVES. Reservists and National Guardsmen, who should be a constant source of Regular Army material, were unjustly handled during the Korean emergency, because of badly organized reserve records. Men with large families and promising careers found themselves suddenly fighting in Korea, while unmarried students or young married men of draft age got easy deferments. Tens of thousands of reservists, exasperated by' this system, have severed their connections with all reserve programs...
...Soapbox. The addition of soap operas to American culture has been under constant attack for years. To every complaint, the soapmakers have a crisply pragmatic answer: they are written as they are because that is what their audience wants. When asked what he thinks of his soap operas, P. & G.'s President McElroy, no steady listener himself, is apt to get up on one of his own soapboxes: "The problem of improving the literary tastes of the people is the problem of the schools. The people who listen to our programs aren't intellectuals - they're ordinary...
...wholesalers. If the wholesalers thought prices were heading higher, they loaded up; if prices seemed to be going down, they cut back sharply, and hundreds of P. & G. employees would be laid off. Colonel Procter reasoned that soap output should be governed by actual consumption of soap, a fairly constant factor...
...candidates will have opportunities to meet and interview the most interesting and important names in the University and will acquire writing facilities invaluable for filling examination blue books, while business candidates will begin to share in the operation of a $100,000 per year enterprise. Photographic competitors will have constant access too one of the best-equipped dark rooms in college journalism...
With a less constant tempo, with some cutting, particularly in the extraneous and overly familiar episodes on shore-the wartime romance, the seaman's return to his bombed home, his faithless wife-The Cruel Sea would have been far more effective. As it is, the audience may be tempted after two hours to agree with the Captain when he says at the end of the film; "Two U-boats in five years. That's not very much, is it? R. E. OLDENBURG