Word: fears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said Poet Stephen Spender: "The gap across Europe does not separate victors and vanquished, but the devastated poor countries and those which are still intact and rich. Let's prevent one side living in self-pity and resentment, and the other in self-righteousness and fear of contamination...
...confusion and the crowds there still remains an intangible--the Harvard name--which, for better or worse, has attracted 2000 men who are willing to invest four crucial years and want the best possible returns. If the record is any sort of evidence, they have little to fear...
...cars a week; now, with 20% more workers, it is making only 25,460. Said Wilson: worker efficiency* was only 80% of its prewar level because of inexperience and workers who 1) feel that they don't have to work so hard any more; 2) fear that with materials shortages they will work themselves...
...these crisp, copywriter words, in his best-selling book The Hucksters* (Rinehart; $2.50), Frederic Wakeman described a big advertiser and the fear of losing his account that supposedly haunts all ad agencies. As a onetime account executive for Manhattan's Foote, Cone & Belding he had handled the big American Tobacco Co. account ($3,000,000 a year) a job in which he had had to satisfy American Tobacco's exacting president, George Washington Hill...
...Stand. Jaws dropped all along ad agency row last week as "the Fear" was felt in the offices of Ruthrauff & Ryan. Mr. Hill's $3,000,000 radio account (Frank Morgan and Jack Benny) was quietly taken from R.&R. and handed to Foote, Cone & Belding, thus giving the agency all of American Tobacco's advertising accounts (worth about $900,000 a year in commissions to F.C.&B.). It was the second body blow for R.&R. in the past two weeks (TIME, Sept. 2) but the agency seemed to be bearing up nobly. Although many an adman...