Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questions pour in at the rate of 2,500 a day, and all of them-even those used on the air-are answered by mail. About 40% of the queries deal with local subjects or can be readily handled by thumbing through a standard reference book. The remaining, tougher 60% are forwarded to The Answer Man's Manhattan headquarters, appropriately located across the street from New York City's 5,000,000-volume Public Library, to be solved by 50-year-old Producer Bruce Chapman, his 40-man staff and a postal panel of 20,000 obliging experts...
...Helpfuls," e.g., "Is drip coffee stronger if you pour the water through twice?" (No, weaker...
...Last spring backed by EGA, The Answer Man crossed the Atlantic. He broadcasts to Great Britain over Radio Luxembourg; in Germany as Der Antwortmann; in France as L'Homme Qui Salt; in Holland as De Antwoord-Man; to Poland as Dr. Wszech-wiedzki. A surprising number of questions pour in from behind the Iron Curtain. Those not answered on the air are answered by letters sent in plain envelopes and without mention of The Answer Man. Ticklish political questions are cleared through the State Department...
...load is getting too heavy. He's trying to run everything. He'll see anybody. Any Senator or governor or anybody else who has his eye on a patronage job of district attorney, or even chicken-feed jobs, can get in to see him and pour his troubles on the President. There's no reason for his trying to handle these things. He is on a wire edge, and we are trying to get him to take a vacation. He's got to. Or else...
...neither surprised nor particularly dazzled by the fact that the U.S. has been able at the same time to pour billions in dollars and goods into the war-torn countries of Europe and Asia. He is calmly convinced that the U.S. can now turn to building $50 billion a year worth of tanks, planes and guns with only a temporary halt in the flow of new houses, bigger television screens and better automatic toasters. "The productivity of the U.S. is so tremendous," said Charles Wilson recently, "that if we started an all-out economic mobilization today, we could practically fill...