Word: hanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time, back in the Gay 90s, a barbershop was a place where mustachioed blades could hang out and sing together in mellow harmony. What happened? The mudpack and the facial, the manicure, new-fangled tonics, lotions and powders, whirring electrical scalp treatments-and the barbershop quartet became a sentimental memory. Then, in 1938, a song-happy Tulsa tax attorney (and baritone) named Owen C. Cash organized the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Amateur singers flocked to join the society (25,000 members in 615 chapters in the U.S., Hawaii...
Management's need for better stockholder relations is more than just the problem of keeping control. For one thing, confident, well-informed stockholders will hang on to their stock, thus prevent rapid and often damaging speculation. For another, stockholders now form industry's handiest market for 1) raising new capital, and 2) selling its products. Celanese Corp., which had trouble raising $40 million for expansion before it brought out a better stockholders' program in 1947, recently raised $200 million without difficulty, largely from its own stockholders...
Will they not, think you, hang themselves...
...week. Electronic devices will thaw frozen foods, cook them in a matter of minutes or seconds; electric incinerators will burn up the waste. Heat pumps (for both heating and cooling homes) will mushroom from the few thousand now in use to 500,000. There will be television screens that hang like pictures on the wall, connected to the set only by a thin wire...
...down, $20 monthly). Fearing that he would be kidded by his fellow workers for"spending so much on art when I could buy a car or something," he asked Meta-Mold to keep his identity secret, hold on to the painting until he could find a place to hang...