Word: product
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sink or swim attitude goes to work on a group that is severely split before it ever arrives in Cambridge. The need of a Massachusetts prop school graduate for a capable adviser will not parallel the need of a student from a small town in Kansas. The prep school product is likely to have a friend or a brother already at Harvard with whom he can consult on academic and other activities. The midwesterner will probably be entering a new and alien society, without personal contacts or previous experience to aid him in adjusting. The impact of an impersonal adviser...
...little boy waxed-eventually to 6 ft. 3 in. The voice waxed too, and earned for Hugh Dalton the nickname "Booming Bittern." Many a Tory never forgave this product of aristocratic Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for joining the Labor Party after World War I. He was called a traitor to his class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally...
...mulcting" the public ("The company drills out the middle of Life Savers"). Another time, Sponsor Oh Henry dispensed with him for a Morganatic commercial about their candy bar ("Feed your children enough Oh Henrys and they'll get sick. . ."). Says Morgan: "I hate the sponsor, I love his product, and I adore his money...
...Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
...Korda organization has all the old Korda assets, plus a strong U.S. distributor-20th Century-Fox. But the organization also has the old Korda foibles. If the first 13 pictures are successful, quips Korda, he will "increase production to eight" so he can improve his product...