Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ward-level thinking came naturally to Bill Boyle. Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City's old Pendergast machine. At 16, he was ringing doorbells in the old Fourth (Silk Stocking) Ward in Kansas City, later became leader there, entered the law. He was a police-department secretary in 1939 when his boss followed old Tom Pendergast to jail. Boyle took over the police department for a few months, won the praise even of the opposition for his administration...
...play is perfectly titled: Willy is that specific modern product, the salesman who believes that the approach, the personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes...
Threatened by the spreading use of home freezing units, she is not unduly perturbed. She believes that the Lord will continue to provide, with the help of a revolutionary new product which she plans to market in a few months...
President Wilson of G.M., whose birthplace was flanked by the houses of two locomotive engineers, still ignores the fact that locomotives have had their weights concentrated over the driving wheels for over 100 years to assure traction, while his product has engine weight over the front wheels that are used for steering...
Ever since the first hero lumbered off into the sunset carrying the swag in one hand and the heroine in the other, people have been carping about the unreality of the normal Hollywood product. What they wanted to see was something approaching real life where passion turns to grapefruit juice and where the hero invariably gets his head knocked...