Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living. Executive Editor A. B. Magill and others from both staffs said they would launch a monthly magazine in March. So far, they had figured out a formula (the mixture as before) and a price (35?), but not a title...
...insurance companies had asked that a percentage of earnings from investments be taxfree, as they were only held in trust for future payments on policies. The Treasury agreed that this was reasonable, and Congress passed a complicated formula to exempt 90 to 91%. When the formula was applied this year, the exemptions worked out to 100.7%. That would mean a windfall of upwards of $34 million. The companies agreed that this was more than they deserved and that Congress should draft a new formula for 1948. They were also willing to work out a retroactive adjustment...
Owens already has a new tune on the fire called You Can't Hurt a Heart That's Broken. He usually thinks up words and music together, sometimes uses arrows over the words to indicate whether the melody goes up or down. His songwriting formula: "For me, either they come easy or they're no good...
...always, commercial fiction writers hammered out their fables according to formula, exploiting the daydreams of the young ("This girl might have been YOU") and the complacencies of the self-deceived. Sexual pandering in the form of the novel had its usual quota of professional and amateur practitioners. As always, however, a few hundred young men & women, fascinated by the charms of art and the oddities of real experience, tried to write honestly and well...
...Take chances and play it safe, get on the right side of people and knock their heads in if they get in your way, and above all get the breaks," is Clark's formula for the quickest method of raising coin enough to buy mink spats and diamond stickpins...