Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After much haggling, Lord Addison read a new statement of Labor's policy. He agreed to the conference the Tories wanted, dodged the question of clipping the peers' powers. The Addison formula: "The discussion of the powers of the [Lords] should be limited to ensuring reasonable time for the due performance of their functions. . . ." This was magnificent bureaucratic jabberwocky, but everybody agreed that it was a compromise : the House of Lords was going to be reformed, and Labor would let the Tories have a say in it. Said,the Marquess of Salisbury: change would now come...
...much of a trouper to complain about that. Besides, she was free to sing old songs, which have a way of turning out to be hits these days. Kay's formula is simple: "If a tune is comfortable . . . if it feels good, I sing...
...becoming increasingly clear. Even Arthur Vandenberg was privately convinced that the Administration's bill could and would have to stand substantial change. He had already publicly tipped his hand by agreeing with a suggestion of World Bank President John J. McCloy. The proposal: that ERP include a formula for "progressive credits"-i.e., make the amount of aid extended dependent on the rate of the economic recovery...
Publisher Jeremiah Ingersoll* had been searching for a new formula since he took over Salute in mid-1946. Last fall Ingersoll hired Vernon Pope, onetime editor of Look, and Editor Morris Weeks Jr., once of Pageant, to put some snap into Salute...
Hollywood's way out seemed to be escape movies and relatively inexpensive little formula pictures about domestic life that Hollywood knew would pay off; they had generally paid off before...