Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Betty Lou Pinkus, head majorette of the Indiana State Normal College, commented last night, "It's just a wonderful idea for Radcliffe coeds to lead Harvard cheers. I don't wonder that cheerleading is in such a bad way at Harvard if all they have is a bunch of boys...
...said the UAC felt that, if athletes led the cheers, they would add "prestige" to the role of cheerleading. At present, cheerleading is "not an honor at Harvard," Noble stated, and added that though the Athletic Council "did not like the idea of cutting four cheerleaders, it felt its decision was one which would be beneficial to Harvard...
...businesslike as any Alger hero, Gruber still thinks of himself as primarily a book writer, but cheerfully admits: "I never write a book nowadays until after I've sold the idea for the story to a producer. That's why I stick to westerns. They're easier to sell to the movies and television...
...designed a frameless corn crib made of corrugated wire mesh. Farmers jumped at it because it was so simple to assemble. Behlen borrowed from the RFC to pay for a bigger plant, netted $305,000 that year and paid off the loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels of the metal proved so strong that buildings as wide...
...used to say, "so long as it's black." The father of modern mass production not only stuck to a few colors, but turned out more than 15 million model Ts over 19 years with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer a service-and whether they have not strayed...