Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Town & Country made money at it: frozen at 25,000 during the war, it doubled its circulation last year, cleared almost $500,000. Editor Bull wanted to plow the money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the stepchild treatment that withheld paper and press time from Town & Country in favor of other Hearst magazines. Instead, his bosses threatened to give Town & Country a mixed-salad section of architecture, interior and exterior (cosmetics) decorating. Now they are free to do it, and Harry Bull is free to write...
...most radical of Ayres's ideas is for Vermonters to stop eating their own syrup. He doesn't think they can afford to, not as long as they need the sugar money to buy a new plow point or improve their stock...
...week's end, the students' pleas had worked again. Sproul was staying on: "I believe this is a straight furrow. ... I shall not take my hand from the plow to which it has been set for the past 17 years...
Augustus B. Longstreet (Georgia Scenes) on hoss-swapping in the 1830s ("Why, man, do you bring such a hoss as that to trade? . . . Well, anyhow, let me look at him. Maybe he'll do to plow...
...Hannes Schneider's Arlberg technique of controlled skiing (by which skiers learn to put on the brakes) which did most to tell U.S. beginners how to ski. Its basis, as with all controlled skiing, is the fundamental snow-plow (knees bent, body tilted forward, ski tips pointed inward like an inverted V). In about five weeks, the average student can learn to ride downhill without wrapping himself around a tree...