Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise was Page One: to get attention, it was turned sideways. The result was confusing when the paper was spread out, but it was an eye-catcher. What's more, the horizontal Page One solved the problem of Mirror display on Los Angeles' downtown newsstands; racks available to the new afternoon daily were not designed for tabloids...
...Sidis, the ex-child prodigy who sued the New Yorker for rediscovering him in his clerkly obscurity with ', "Where Are They Now?" piece. The court granted that Sidis' privacy had been invaded-but threw out the case because, as Sidis had been a person in the public eye, the story still "possesses great reader interest...
...immediate paper profit for Crosby was around $138,000. The chances for long-range profit looked even better, for Jock Whitney has shown a sharp eye for picking and financing winners.* Whitney got into the frozen juice business through National Research Corp., a war-boomed company that licenses the process by which Vacuum Foods concentrates and freezes the juice. When mixed with three parts of water, the frozen juice is the closest thing yet to fresh-squeezed juice...
Last year it finally turned the corner. Says Vacuum's President John M. Fox: "Why, this orange juice thing is the wonder of the grocery world. Ask anybody." Anybody in the frozen food industry agreed-and Birds Eye, Snow Crop and others began to put out their own concentrate. Nevertheless, Vacuum's sales increased so much that President Fox announced last week that the net profit for its last fiscal year...
...also laid out the factory with an eye to the comfort of her 1,000 workers; it has tinted windows to eliminate glare, a drive-in entrance with a long canopy to keep workers dry on rainy days. Nellie's workers have their own five-acre country club, where they can entertain friends at luncheons and parties. They can get good meals at Nellie's cafeteria at 1938 prices (the difference is Nellie's loss...