Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accusing Voices. Paris hadn't been easy. Sekoto couldn't afford a studio, painted instead in his small, airless hotel room, laying his canvases on the floor where a small square of light fell. Three weeks ago he began hearing accusing voices repeating "You're no good, Gerard. Your painting is no good." To escape the voices, he tried to drink poison, hang himself. Friends rescued him, sent him off to the asylum of Ste. Anne...
...been whooshed out from airplanes on almost every kind of territory where noxious insects breed. When properly done, say Authors Hoffmann & Linduska, the results have usually been good. As little as one-tenth of a pound of DDT per acre is effective against some mosquitoes. Many serious forest pests, such as gypsy moths, are controlled by somewhat larger doses. Other insects are killed at the same time, but in most cases the insect population of the forest returns to normal a few weeks after the spraying...
Everybody had been prepared for some pretty glum news when the profits accounts for 1949's first six months were totted up. Last week, with most of the earnings figures in, the news was surprisingly good. Out of 425 companies reporting, about 40% had bettered their 1948 profits; only 27 companies lost money...
...John L. Lewis' coal strike was on. Instead, Olds contented himself with asserting that Big Steel's ability to pay had nothing to do with the case. Said he: "There is no justification at this time for a fourth round . . . I do not believe it would be good for the economy...
...Pasadena, Calif, headquarters of Joyce, Inc., all this global shoe-fitting last year added up to a thumping gross of $8.4 million. This year's sales are so good that Joyce, already the world's largest maker of wedgie playshoes for women, expects its overall gross to approach $20 million...