Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings off 5.4% from 1948 (v. nearly a 10% average drop for all roads), Bill Deramus hopes to cut costs more by dieselizing the entire line by fall...
...started as a transportation department apprentice with the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, two years later became assistant terminal master. During the war, as an Army major in India, he ran a ramshackle railroad which carried supplies to the Ledo Road. Said he: "After I got through with that line I was about ready to become a truck driver...
Some manufacturers were finding ways to cut prices while retaining all the features of their old higher-priced lines. The Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. brought out a new line of gas ranges to retail 12% to 20% below the market for competing ranges. With department-store sales slipping behind last year's, more industries were facing the problem of whether to cut production or take a chance with ingenious cost-cutting practices. In many cases ingenuity was already paying...
...camera is one of a long line of bright ideas which have won Dr. Land's company a fine scientific reputation, but little in the way of profits except in the war years, when it made optical equipment. Land first got interested in optics as a science student at Harvard; he formed Polaroid in 1937 to market his first notable discovery, Polaroid plastic. (It filtered light rays in such a way that the glare was removed...
...Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...