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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, radio's Arthur Godfrey put his Talent Scouts on television, but he was making no concessions to TV. "Forty million people listen to us on the radio," he said. "We're not going to louse that up in order to please a few thousand...
Fighting trypanosomiasis by attacking the flies with insecticides has never been wholly effective. Some flies always survived and quickly re-established the fly population. As a result, the whole great African area (including Kenya, Uganda and Sudan) has only about 16 million head of scrubby, inferior cattle. Even these hardy beasts often die of the disease. David Rees-Williams, British Undersecretary for Colonies, says of Antrycide: "It will enable Africa to carry much more cattle than Argentina, where there are now about 33 million head...
...alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every U.S. woman), 4,710,000 washing machines, 27.3 million radios, toasters and irons, more than 80 million auto tires...
...Bakers. In the unparalleled production marathon of 1948, many a U.S. businessman marched in seven-league boots. Charles E. Wilson's General Motors turned in the biggest profits of any single U.S. company (estimated $425 million), and by tying wage increases to the cost of living, showed a statesmanlike concept of management-labor relations. Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery put on his own special one-man show; since midyear, he had fired or accepted the resignations of his president and seven other executives, but he still turned in the biggest profits (about $65 million) in "Monkey" Ward...
...flop of the year was Preston Tucker; he spent over $20 million turning out 39 handmade cars, and at year's end was sadly muttering: "All I need is money." If there was a Businessman of the Year it was Automaker Paul G. Hoffman, who left his job as president of Studebaker and climbed into the driver's seat of ECA, the biggest politico-business enterprise in world history. He got it running with a minimum of gear clashing, and Congress found little need for back-seat driving...