Word: productions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers are pinching pennies. Far from retrenching, the Atlanta Newspapers Inc.'s Journal and Constitution are spending more money. Explained Journal-Constitution Executive Editor Gene Patterson: "It was either retrench or increase expenditures and try for a better product that will sell. We thought the latter would be more rewarding...
...first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down in a single day, she wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence-and got 500 supporting letters from readers. A product of the '30s, she readily admits that she leans toward pump-priming Keynesian economics and the Democratic Party. "I don't see how anyone could have lived through the Depression and feel differently...
...There are so many people in it, and they all just copy me." She is probably right-but there is nothing unusual about it. Each company carefully guards its new gimmicks and products, and a chemist from one firm having lunch with a chemist from another is sure to be suspect. But once a product is out, everyone grabs greedily for it. Bristol-Myers worked for nearly six years to research its Ban roll-on deodorant; after it appeared, it was copied by nearly a dozen firms...
...being first in one's class or captain of the football team or editor of the school paper, then a smaller school, offering less competition, makes it more likely that a boy will be able to "find himself" in some activity. Of course the quality of the finished product is rarely as high as in a more competitive atmosphere. Middlesex cannot hope to compete with Andover or Exeter in football, nor can it turn out as impressive a newspaper or literary magazine, but there is not as much feeling of the need for such excellence...
...because the sweeping change in the U.S. food market has put almost 70% of grocery sales into the supermarkets, where General Foods must compete against the supermarkets' own private brands. To do it, General Foods beats the advertising drum heavily. Says Mortimer: "You have to sell your product before people get to the supermarket...