Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long can 128's whiz kids keep up their phenomenal growth? The companies are heavily dependent on Government contracts, which can be cut back or canceled overnight. Their products often can be copied by competitors. Their financing can fall through if the stratospheric stock market ever tumbles or credit tightens. Their space-age industries can run into rugged shake-outs-just as most other industries have in the past. This means that only those with the wisest managers, the sharpest scientists and the biggest bankrolls will come through. Even for those, the prices of the stocks are so high...
...MANUFACTURING Co..a56-year-old maker of display cases, is one of the older companies that changed course to catch the electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner that...
Gratitude is like business credit: it keeps trade brisk, and we pay up, not because it is the honorable thing to do but because it makes it easier to borrow again...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Claude Rains as a bibulous actor who turns to blackmail when the local saloon cuts off his credit...
...good deal of credit must go to the ancillary contributors. Will Steven Armstrong has designed the scenery, with some translucent green-and-tan drops; his solution for changing the scene to Herne's oak for the masque finale is highly ingenious. In fact, never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore...