Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy, by far the cheapest for travel (a good meal costs only a dollar), was also anxious to please. Though the prim government forbade Italians to wear two-piece bathing suits or abbreviated trunks on the public beaches, Americans were free to wear what they wanted at such international resorts as Portofino, Lido and Capri. This year there would be classical plays for tourist audiences, performed under floodlights in the ruins of Pompeii. Like other Italians, the pickpockets were getting ready for the tourists. Rome newspapers reported last week that they were brushing up their art at special schools, where...
...hunters. The hunters fought their way to the racks and crawled over them like Japanese beetles on a bush. By 11 o'clock, the racks were stripped bare. Filene's rang up an estimated $65,000 in sales and, to boot, had netted an inestimable amount in good-will advertising...
...Exchange, bulls & bears looked up from their trading last week to find 50 eager women giving them the once-over. The first women visitors ever to be permitted on the floor of the exchange, they were the first of ten tourist parties, all anxious to learn how to be good investors...
...bottle of straight (compared with a prewar ratio of one-for-one). Distillers will have to do more than cut blend prices; they will have to lure drinkers back to straight whisky, probably by bringing bonded straight whisky prices (U.S. average: $6.90 a fifth) more in line with good blends (about...
Hollywood keeps so busy wooing its "mass" audience that it traditionally scoffs at catering to "class" taste. Last week, taking stock of the moviemakers' problems, FORTUNE added its voice to an old lament by the critics: the industry is passing up a good bet by producing little to interest the 40 million Americans (mostly over 30) who only occasionally go to the movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown...