Word: productions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they picked up their morning papers last week, Budapesters could scarcely believe their eyes. The front-page attack on lazy Hungarian workers sounded like a product of "the slanderous propaganda machinery of Wall Street industrialists," and yet it had been signed by none other than Matyas Rakosi, the country's No. 1 Communist...
Because nylon is stronger than cotton or linen and does not rot, Brownell & Co., Inc. of Moodus, Conn, started making nylon fish nets. To test their new product, Brownell made composite gill nets three miles long with alternate sections of nylon, cotton and linen. When the nets were tried in the Great Lakes, the nylon sections caught twelve times as many fish as the others...
...Victorian era's high noon, most businessmen were warmed by the belief that the biggest rewards would automatically go, by economic law, to the producer of the best and cheapest product. It was mainly patent medicinemen who "took advertising" regularly. In 1888, there were only two men in New York who admitted to being professional writers of advertising; one of them resided in a Bowery hotel, at 25? a night...
...start of a new season. It was hard to find. At the end of a muggy summer, only 15 shows still ran in its 30 playhouses (half as many as were running in London), and all of September promised only one new arrival. Symptomatically, it was not even the product of a Broadway rehearsal stage, but Los Angeles' long-running revue, Ken Murray's Blackouts...
Bill Barbour has already set his gauges on bigger business radiations. Last week, with French bankers and industrialists, he set up Tracerlab's first foreign affiliate, France's "Saphymo" (for Société d'Application de la Physique Moderne), planned to start production overseas. For next year, Barbour, cannily aware of the atomic age's "uranium rush," already has a new product on the books: a portable radiation detector for prospectors...