Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housewives will buy about $350 million worth of General Foods products that were barely known or not even on the market 15 years ago, e.g., soluble coffee, frozen juices, cake mixes. "There was a 25% population increase from 1940 to 1955, but food sales rose 60% in terms of constant dollars," says Mortimer. "Americans are not eating more, but they are eating better...
...STRAC organization has been a loose-knit fact for nearly two years, was identified and tabbed about three months ago as the Army desperately sought a role in the strategic-deterrent concept. Already 2,000 STRAC men have been geared to a constant two-hour alert at U.S. bases; the hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop...
...through the entire paper," argues one official. "We can tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold on the front page...
Word of Caution. One of the effects of this new friendship "is a constant invitation from Protestants to Catholics to cooperate with them in their projects." Catholics, he said, "are embarrassed about this new trend. They do not wish to be rude, and they wish to reciprocate the good will shown them. But they do not know to what the acceptance of the invitation commits them. Many therefore politely but awkwardly refuse the welcome, but many more are now accepting the welcome and find the intercourse pleasant and profitable...
...earmarked for a new 16-story residence hall with apartments for married students and faculty families, plus single rooms for unmarried students. But the new housing plan will mean more to Union than mere shelter. Says Board Chairman Benjamin Strong: "The preparation of ministers requires constant and close association of teachers and students. Conversations in the halls, bull sessions in student rooms or faculty apartments, everything that goes on in the Union quadrangle has its place in sharpening the spiritual awareness and broadening the outlook of the future minister...