Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something...
Surgery "of a somewhat crude nature" then does what it can to repair the damage. It can shut off some of the abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective...
Dom Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months...
Down & Up. In a big week, Packard Motor Car Co. cut prices 4½% to 8½% on six models and reported a net income of $3,911,033 for the first quarter of 1949, three times its net for the same quarter last year. The auto price cuts nipped...