Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission. They dislike the high pressure of the insurance salesman's life (only 5% wanted to go into it) and almost none of them care for investment banking. But there is one rather new field that seems to be phenomenally popular: the field of "personnel." Seniors never know quite why the field appeals to them. They almost invariably say "Because I like people...
Self-conscious adolescents and worried parents know that a bad case of acne can cause more misery than many a more painful ailment; it can also end in serious psychological damage. Youthful victims are easy prey to misconceptions about acne, sometimes worry themselves into trying quack cures...
...that Sports Newsreel is a misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny," he says, then adds defensively: "If there's a story that I know to be factual, I'll say so-but that's seldom the case...
...would cushion any decline in incomes. For the steelmakers themselves, Sawyer had a special word of cheer. "The Government," said Sawyer, "never intended to take over the steel business." He added that businessmen should be permitted to run their own enterprises without Government interference; after all, said he, "they know more about business than Government officials...
There was not yet enough for that. Last year, the nine Government-owned, industry-run synthetic plants turned out only enough cold rubber for U.S. tiremakers to make three cold-rubber tires out of every 100 they sold (customers who got them did not know it). RFC, which has charge of the plants, expects to spend $5,000,000 a year to convert the entire capacity of synthetic plants to cold rubber...