Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laymen who need a simpler formula to tell the difference between the early Christian Communists and our modern Communists than the erudite definition of the Archbishop of York [TIME, Nov. 22] may follow the rule laid down by the late Father Zehentbauer, professor of moral theology on the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Vienna: "The early Christian Communists taught and practiced 'What mine is, is thine'-while our modern Communists preach and practice 'What thine is, is mine...
Recently Ned's son Jerome, 41, who "imbibed merchandising in my guts since I was twelve," has been urging Ned to try the Ohrbach formula in a dozen other cities. A banking syndicate is ready to back such a chain if the Los Angeles store succeeds. But no matter how many stores are opened, Ohrbach's intends to make customers pay cash. Says Ned: "The more billing the less cooing...
...formula is just as secret now as it always has been. Over the years knowledge, theories, the results of experiments brought by travelers to the Indies, to far off China, Australia, Europe and Africa-and just across Boston's Charles River-all this he has added to his own native wisdom ... But he has never mixed ... in his formula...
...wrote a novel [about the Eastons] I know how my first chapter would end. Three minutes after Mrs. Easton answered the phone and gave the right formula . . . the doorbell rang. It was an insurance salesman. He had been passing through Attleboro with his car radio on, listening, of course, to Stop the Music. When he heard the address, he headed for the house. He was Johnny-on-the-spot, the first of an intolerable army of mercenaries. I didn't make up the insuranceman episode. That, too, happened to the Eastons...
...hour and 30% a week but that "rising prices have more than offset the increase." But the New York Times thought BLS had let go a low blow. It thought wages and purchasing power should be compared with those of January, 1941 (the base date of the Little Steel formula). "We find," said the Times, "that while the cost of living has risen 73%, average hourly earnings are up 95%, average weekly earnings...