Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year, v. last year's loss...
...such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of labor in foreign countries, is often disguised behind the Iron Curtain to create the illusion of full employment...
...million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president of a major U.S. railway: "We could solve all our financial problems...
Vita Manga Est. Last week the menthol drive reached its peak of intensity, proclaimed by full-page ads that touted every gimmick that adman can conceive and machine execute. Philip Morris (Marlboro, Parliament) launched Alpine on a national scale, billed it not only as a long, low-tar, lightly mentholated cigarette with "the longest filter yet," but as one of the few cigarettes since Camel to come in a package with a picture on it (of an Alpine mountain). Brown & Williamson, whose "Thinking Man" Viceroys thoughtlessly slumped 20% in the first quarter, clawed back with two new filters: the mentholated...
AGES OF MAN (Columbia). Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare sampler is presented at roughly half the length at which it was seen last season on Broadway. Gielgud's voice is never a particularly impressive instrument, and when the going requires full bellows, it seems in danger of failing him altogether. But it still possesses what it demonstrated so triumphantly onstage-the ability to roll out some of the most famous lines in the language in a green-gaged glow of surprise...