Word: invents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Remarque admits that he had to invent little of his story because so much of it happened to him. Hero Ludwig's town of Werdenbrük is like Remarque's Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm...
...industrial ideas by the dozen. It helped develop Owens-Illinois' Fiberglas, a new kind of blast furnace for Republic Steel, American Viscose's rubber fiber Filastic. When Bristol-Myers' brushmaking subsidiary, Rubberset, could get no more hog bristles from Red China in 1950, A.D.L helped invent a chemical substitute from chicken feathers. Its special taste laboratory has aided dozens of U.S. foodmakers. Its smell laboratory, which developed special chemicals to help American espionage agents outwit enemy bloodhounds in wartime, has advised industry on everything from salad dressing to air conditioning...
...Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty ... To invent new social devices for the regulation of plenty." In a 1938 book called The Middle Way, he urged government planning to reform the economic order and create welfare services, was promptly labeled a "Conservative New Dealer," and backbenchers dismissed his whole group as Y.M.C.A. boys. Wrote Macmillan: "The dynamic of social change...
Strange Race. Gauvreau also hit on a way to invent pictures that he called "composographs." He boosted circulation by 100,000 with a composograph showing Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
Actually, Birdseye did not invent quick-frozen foods. Eskimos had followed the practice for centuries; European scientists had developed the theory to a fine point. Said Birdseye: "My contribution was to take the Eskimos' knowledge and the scientists' theories and adapt them to quantity production." Brick-hard, brick-size frozen food packages became a staple in U.S. kitchens. Many of the housewives who used the product never knew that Birdseye (spelled Birds Eye on General Foods packages) was a man. But, they paid him the greater compliment of using frozen foods so enthusiastically that in 1955 the industry...