Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addison knows how to use the magic of the pot-of-gold word, uranium. His principal asset is a machine called the Benson Upgrader, with which it is theoretically possible to refine low-grade uranium ore several times over until it is fairly bursting with creamy-rich atomic goodness. The only difficulty is that the Benson Upgrader, which is something like a gravel washer, does not work very well...
When American silent movies arrived in Shanghai, the brothers bought a movie camera-the "foreign devils' magic lens" -and helped build up China's huge movie market. Before long, civil war and revolution wrecked the box office. Whenever they opened a moviehouse in some warlord's domain, recalls Run Run, "the warlord's private army would invade the theater without paying, watch the film and rape the women customers...
Buddhism was their religion; yet they also found much to love in the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome. They were fascinated by centaurs and Tritons, and they could produce a handsome Athena or Roma, helmet and all. They dutifully gave Buddha's head the magic bump that marked his Buddhahood-though they were likely to disguise it under a mop of hair inspired by Apollo. Buddha himself often appeared draped in a Roman toga, and some of the men could have come straight out of the Roman Senate. But while the artists borrowed, they did not copy...
...Eisenhower's press-conference "good news" about the U.S. economy. Ike made one announcement that everyone had long expected: final figures for the gross national product during the first quarter were above earlier estimates. The value of goods and services produced in the U.S. had nudged over the magic half-trillion-dollar mark, was running at the rate of $502 billion a year...
Wall Street's newest romance is with the automatic vending-machine industry, which is changing the eating and buying habits of America. Shares in vending companies have suddenly been tagged with the magic phrase "growth stocks," have risen spectacularly in a declining market. In January, the stock of Universal Match, which rings up 40% of its sales in vending equipment, sold for 83, last week closed at 134¾. Vendo, the largest maker of automatic vending machines, has jumped from 23¾ to 66, while Automatic Canteen, biggest combined food-selling and machine-manufacturing company, rose from...