Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...
Says the boss, who takes on jobs for as little as $500 or as much as $200,000: "If you want me to do a big thing like a tractor-there are so many obvious things you could do to make it better-looking that I would take it for very little. But if you want me to redesign a sewing needle, I'd charge $100,000. After all, how can you improve a needle? It's like the perfect functional shape...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...
Stewart hasn't the glimmer of an idea how men feel when their world is suddenly snuffed out, but he does make some good guesses about how they exist. The dynamos run down, the reservoirs run dry, the cigarettes go flat and the canned goods lose their flavor, yet The Tribe cannot find the patience or the seed to keep a garden, nor the wit to catch a cow. The children scarcely learn to read, and soon begin to think of the vanished Americans as a race of gods...
...spite of the excitement it raised among French politicians, the crisis was not a particularly acute one. The only danger lay in the possibility that a failure of the center parties to reunite would make national elections necessary, and that the extremist partics, the Communists and de Gaulle's RPF might then gain more scats. The collapse of Cabinets is a commonplace in French polities--in fact the Queuillo regime, which lasted a little over a year, was considered an oddity of longevity. Lack of Cabinet leadership delays only the top-level decisions, for the ordinary administrative bureaucracy goes...