Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Procter & Gamble's organization existed to give its president the facts-and McElroy used them to make his top-level decisions. When a scientist wrote P. & G. suggesting that fluorine in toothpaste might prevent tooth decay, the company hired the scientist, launched an intensive research project which came up with the information that enabled McElroy to give the go-ahead on Crest...
...Dental Medicine, Biochemist James H. Shaw and his assistants worked for more than ten years with cages full of white rats and cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...stench of decay was recognizable in Parisian cinemas where newsreel audiences booed and jeered an endless procession of politicos marching vainly into the Palais Bourbon to argue and temporize. Railway workers, bus drivers, mailmen, stagehands, customs inspectors, garbage collectors, undertakers and thousands of other French workers walked out in a paralyzing general strike, leaving Paris streets empty of buses and littered with trash. Unless the government can persuade the Bank of France to lend it 250 billion francs, it will not be able even to meet its next civil-service payroll...
...Injelitance" Quotient. An organization in incipient decay can be recognized not only through the perfection of its architecture but also from its high "injelitance" quotient. Injelitance, says Parkinson, is "a high concentration of incompetence and jealousy" typified by "any individual who. having failed to make anything of his own department, tries constantly to interfere with other departments and gain control of the central administration." If such a man becomes boss, there soon develops "an actual competition in stupidity, people pretending to be even more brainless than they are." The only cure for such a situation, according to Parkinson...
...second-largest insurance city) took out options on suburban sites, blueprinted plans to take their bulky payrolls out of the city. Then early in 1953, a handful of worried citizens, encouraged by the Newark News, sat down to map a counterattack against apathy and decay. Says President Robert Cowan of the National Newark & Essex Banking Co.: "Up until that time, it was always 'nothing can be done.' " This time things were different...