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Salesman. Prentiss Brown's second major deputy is big, genial Lou Russel Maxon, who built up Maxon, Inc. of Detroit from a nickel-&-dime business into one of the foremost U.S. advertising agencies. He has the job of making the people love the price policy. Brown and Maxon went to work to humanize...
...boys in trouble, we too are in trouble." The Manhattan B.B.R. enrolls some 300 "citizens,"* occupies a lower East Side tenement, is supervised in a hands-off way by just one adult - short, dark Director George Ougourlian. The club is supported by a philanthropic board of directors and dime-a-month "taxes" from the citizens...
Czars were now a dime a dozen: the U.S. had Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, Production Czar Donald Nelson, Manpower Czar Paul McNutt, Food Czar Claude Wickard, Rubber Czar William Jeffers. But they were more like Grand Dukes than Czars: under their high-sounding titles, divided authority and lack of direction left them still snarled in invisible red tape...
...same about the Square, from 1898, when he first began working here, to the present time. Even when he shaved ex-President Eliot, he got only the customary ten or fifteen cents extra for a haircut or a shave. With the late President Lowell it was the same dime or fifteen cents for a Burnside trim or a mustache curl. It's always been like that, he said...
...developed helicopter, with horizontally rotating blades overhead and small vertical blades on the tail, has reached the stage where its designer prophesies great value as an anti-submarine device, in liaison work and sea rescues. It can hang stationary in the air, fly backward, drop vertically, land on a dime. >The batlike Flying Wing, with fuselage and wings molded into a single, obtuse-angled wing, is one of the many radical types now under study, may eventually revolutionize all aircraft design...