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Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
...enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
Naughty boys, perverts, and the world's few serious Satanists have for centuries amused themselves with much talk and rare observance of the luridly infamous Black Mass. Capable of infinite variation in its pseudo-liturgical mumbo jumbo, the Black Mass usually has as its basic ingredients a consecrated host, an apostate priest, a prostitute and a virgin, combined to achieve a maximum of orgiastic blasphemy...
Growing Boys. Yet the mumbo-jumbo of subsidiaries came in handy during the war. Profits (e.g., from U.S. Lever Bros., estimated at $14,000,000 in 1945), which should have gone to Rotterdam and might have fallen into the hands of the Nazis, were simply stopped along...
...from Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s parody of the language chemists and engineers use, some of you have suggested that our Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which too many scientific treatises are written. He was also, by implication, making a plea for a simpler, clearer use of the King's or any other English...