Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stable factor in the book business. But today, some of the smartest U.S. publishers privately concede that hard-cover books cost too much. They also know that there are far more potential readers than there are customers willing to pay current hard-cover prices. Result: alongside the diminishing flood of glossy-covered quarter dreadfuls is an increasing stream of serious paperbacks, including the finest books ever written, more handsomely designed and produced than many hard-cover volumes...
...greatest strides, helped along by dozens of whirring, clicking machines. Yet the number of office workers has actually risen from 5,100,000 to 8,100,000 in the last ten years. Only the new machines have made it possible for U.S. businessmen to keep up with the increasing flood of paper work. There are automatic time clocks, electric typewriters, card punchers, sorters, analyzers, tabulating machines and accounting machines. They do everything from keeping records to servicing bank accounts and writing checks. The U.S. Government alone uses 23,150 tabulating machines (more than 90% made...
...true that soon after Utamaro Ukiyo-e art sharply declined. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was the last Ukiyo-e master. An Edo fireman, Hiroshige quit fire fighting at 27 to hike up and down Japan sketching. He turned his sketches into a flood of prints showing the nation's famed views, stopping places, bridges, rivers and fairs in all kinds of weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death...
...shake off the soiled and suffocating cloak of McCarthyism." Then Editor Gore stepped out of his role as newspaperman. As his idea caught on, he used his job plant to print petitions for McCarthy's recall, and he organized the Joe Must Go Club to handle the flood of incoming mail and petitions. He also made speeches around the state, found himself a rallying point for anti-McCarthyites...
...flood of 1954 earnings reports poured in last week, there was no doubt about the sharp upturn in profits in last year's final quarter. General Electric Co. boosted its fourth-quarter net to $72 million, 46% over the comparable period of 1953 and 53% above 1954's third quarter. Despite a 5% decline in sales for the year, G.E. racked up a net of $213 million, up 28% from 1953, for the highest profits in G.E. history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that this year will be even more prosperous...