Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hang on to its biggest customers, Morton Salt Co. had been giving extraordinarily large trade discounts. Unconvinced that this had any relation to real savings in Morton's costs, FTC had charged that the discounts were unfair to smaller buyers. The Supreme Court in effect had ordered Morton Salt to stick to a uniform price list for big & small alike. Reasoned one businessman: "If everyone does stick to his price list and the price lists gravitate to a common level, as they will be compelled to do under the economic law of uniform price, then, according to the Supreme...
...When Morton Gurewitch graduated from New York's City College in 1942, he had a straight A average in French...
Sergeant Toomey discovered no foot-prints outside the first-floor windows, but did find a set of fingerprints in the desk drawer of James P. Morton '51, the third roommate. These are now being checked against national flies in Washington...
...Walk" is 96 pages long, so I cannot comment on all the various contributions, but must omit some that I liked, such as "Canto 6, Dante's Purgatorio" by Theodore Spencer, and some that I did not like at all, such as "Oono Dos Treys" by Bert Morton in order to get to the poetry, much of which is remarkably good. ("Oono Dos Treys," I should explain, is a labored story about a foetus that refuses to be born, but talks in erudite English inside the mother, an idea whose grotesque charm wears off rapidly after the first few scholarly...
...curtain-raiser began the evening's activities. It is really just a short sketch expanded into a half-hour with music, a kind of parody of coincidence-filled drama, and a wonderful curtain line. Sir Arthur Sullivan was the composer, but the libretto was written by two gentlemen named Morton and Burnand. A few years later Sullivan entered into a much more successful partnership...