Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two more industrial giants announced their future plans. Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert said his company will spend more than $1 billion over the next five years for new plants and automated equipment. To express "our confidence in the economic outlook," Standard Oil (N.J.), the world's biggest oil company, announced that in 1956 it will spend a record $1.1 billion on expansion: 50% on searching for new oil, 25% on refineries, and the rest for new transportation and marketing facilities to get its products to consumers. Little Man Beware. In Wall Street there are still...
Three centuries of industrial progress have wrought equally great changes in the outlook of Boston's publishing houses. Publishing has become a function of the business community where it was an arm of the church. Despite this evolution, its original seriousness of purpose reappears in modern guise. Book publishing began in Boston as an expression of this curiosity, but spiraling production costs have since forced the editor to tailor his product to financial considerations. Seldom will he issue what he knows will lose money; he would prefer to throw his resources behind a book with one virtue--that people will...
Having produced a work of craftsmanship, the educational publisher becomes a powerful force in moulding outlook of a child. One series of books prepared by Ginn, D. C. Heath, or the somewhat smaller Allyn and Bacon can follow a child through as many as nine years of his education...
...outlook for those patients who go back to their work is at least as good as it is for those who retire...
...manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position in the struggle. The abrupt change in Joan's outlook when she renounces the confession is electrifying...