Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This may seem surprising, when you consider the number of amateur and professional photographers clicking shutters at every perceivable object on the American scene. But the reason becomes obvious from the story Strock told me about his assignment. His problem was to capture with one exposure a scene which surrounded him-a painting which covers 11,840 square feet on the inner wall of a special cylindrical building at Gettysburg...
High in the voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw object after object into the flames-bottles to bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods...
...behest of its advertisers or on pleas from special segments of business ... it will soon cease to have readers." The Journal, rejoined G.M., seemed to miss the point. "To the extent that this was a reporting of news derived from sources free to divulge the information, we have no objection . . . even though such information, published many months in advance of the introduction of new models, may . . . prejudice the sale of . . . current . . . products. We do, however, object to the publication of statements and particularly sketches which have as their source . . . the manufacturer's . . . blueprint [that] assertedly came from General Motors...
...primary object of diversification by the Rockwell Manufacturing Co., which makes everything from saws to parking meters, is to provide, "as nearly as possible, 'security of profits,' and thus security of jobs and dividends." Says President Willard Rockwell: "A company tied to one industry, or operating in one plant, is too vulnerable. One soft market, one bad fire, one strike, and profits are suspended, people are laid off, dividends stop. At the worst the company is out of business." Diversification also got a boost from the war-baby industries; they were forced by the loss of defense orders...
...early 1930s, a group of young Germans led by Wernher von Braun were playing with rockets on the outskirts of Berlin. Their object: to fly to the moon...