Word: deadwood
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...turned Packard upside down. When he took over, Packard had several things to its credit: a solid cash position, a restyled car, and one of the best engineering divisions in the auto industry. But dealers were overloaded with cars, sales were slow, and the payroll was heavy with deadwood...
...Taft forces' leader, former State Supreme Court Justice Charles R. Hayes of Deadwood, commented somewhat sadly: "Certainly we claim victory . . . But it isn't what we had hoped for." Eisenhower's supporters were quick to point out that this was in Taft's Midwest stronghold, where he should win if he could win anywhere. Ike's show of strength, without a personal campaign and without his name on the ballot, was a "moral victory," they said. But Ike, now home to speak for himself, took a different view: "I don't understand moral victories...
When Cochrane took over, he cleared out top deadwood, cut the staff from 4,853 to 4,211, whittled the backlog of claims. Cochrane is proud that the board and its predecessor sold 1,956 ships worth $4.4 billion for $1.7 billion, chartered ships for another ½ billion. He insists that it was a better return than any other agency got on war-surplus property...
...when the London press bought in, turned the agency into a cooperative (like the A.P.), which now includes papers in India, Australia and New Zealand. Sir Roderick Jones was replaced by Christopher Chancellor, who had been chief correspondent and general manager in the Far East. He cleaned out the deadwood, pepped up Reuters' flat and often long-winded copy, determinedly turned Reuters away from its old reputation as a voice of the Empire, was knighted for the job. In ten years, Sir Christopher, now 47 and his editor, Walton Cole, 38, have tripled the total of correspondents and revenues...
After 56 years, the greater part of Mrs. Warren is utter deadwood-obsolete in method, lean on wit, smacking of 19th-century melodrama. In 1950, it is much more of a problem play for directors than for theatergoers. In general, the current production is weak. But the two crucial scenes between Mrs. Warren and her daughter ring out with a forthright vigor and vibrancy; and Mrs. Warren (Estelle Winwood) is played with decided style, her daughter (Louisa Horton) with fine sobriety. Twice Mrs. Warren's Profession booms like a great-bellied old clock, even if it otherwise runs painfully...