Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived since his wife died in 1939. Fellow townsmen are allowed to stop and chat if a hovering nurse nods to them, are offered Robert Burns Panatelas at audience's end. The cigars must be smoked immediately; E. J. Baker likes his gifts to be used...
...Aroused. Not since Russian troops crushed the Hungarian rebellion had world opinion been so repelled by a Soviet action. In London 14 distinguished writers, ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted...
...range as high as $200,000. Larkins is constantly taking on new jobs. When the Portland (Me.) Copper & Tank Works needed a machine that would rapidly drill 160 evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric J-79 jet engine, the company called on Elox. They worked out a machine, an eight-headed monster that can quickly and automatically drill dozens of combinations of holes. Said Engineer Clifford B. Smith of Portland Copper & Tank: "Elox's limits are only the limits of an engineer's imagination...
...recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that. But when it put them on sale at $18, it made no mention of the old price because: "the comparison would not have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising in its newspaper or house displays; instead, it insists on such low-key language as "on sale" or "specially priced." Downtown stores in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis have agreed to stop advertising comparative prices...
Well below the high-fashion class is Simplicity Pattern Co., No. 1 in the field and the only maker that sells nothing else (expected 1958 sales: $20 million). "We work for the girl next door," says President James J. Shapiro. "We want to sell Fords with lots of chrome, not Cadillacs...