Word: dismalness
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...Rebound. Before Mahoney could restore Canada Dry's bubble, profits sank to a dismal $658,950 in fiscal 1967 (partly because he junked $1,560,000 worth of obsolete wooden cases and deposit-type bottles). But in the nine months ending last December, sales shot up to a record $155 million and profits rebounded to $2,890,000. Naturally, nobody is more delighted than Norton Simon, a notably tough taskmaster. "Dave has done sensationally considering the time he's been aboard," says Simon. "Canada Dry is a substantially rejuvenated company." Wall Street agrees. From...
...posies and peacock feathers, and his gentle singsongs ooze various kinds of blissfulness ("His kisses on your brow/You may rest assured peace is coming"). Yet the self-styled minstrel has a stern message to his followers: "Stop the use of all Drugs and banish them into the dark and dismal places...
Pearson brought intellect and understanding to the problem of national unity, and so Canadians will ascribe his failure to bring about great improvements to his dismal television image, or to his age. But the real source of his failure is the enormous difficulty of the problem itself. It is not one that will suddenly disappear through sentimental reconciliation amid the glitter of a World's Fair, or through the charisma of a Canadian Kennedy...
Blasto. To a great extent, TV has ignored its responsibility in programming. The bulk of children's programming is at best dismal. Since the big dollar is in prime-time programming, none of the networks even bothers to have a children's division; and most producers of children's TV think of it only as a chance to pick up some experience before moving up to the big time. With a few notable exceptions, such as Popular Scientist Don Herbert's Watch...
...Madison Square Garden, erected over the rebuilt Pennsylvania Station in New York City, resorts in Florida, parks in Texas and housing developments in California. The diversified corporation will have total assets of $6.3 billion, annual revenues of almost $2 billion, and tidy tax-loss credits from dismal years in the past that will help to improve net income for years to come. Most of all, in its plans and in its performance, Penn Central will be a prototype of the U.S. railroad of the future...