Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Soviet-style billingsgate: "Foulest of words . . . ancient and hackneyed gossip ... phantasmagoria of phrases . . . delirium of an impudent person . mercenary from head to heels . . . this savage . . . bandit . . depraved souls . . . product of the Stock Exchange and black market . . . scum. . . . How can you influence him? Such persons are not even beaten, so as not to stain one's hands...
...only major report on clothiers so far concerned J. Press, who attributed its $15 boost as due to increased cost of fabrics although the trade at large had not expected upped wool prices to appear in the finished product so soon...
...denying the report of an increase in the price of a ham sandwich, the manager of Hazen's pointed out that ham prices had gone up less than beef but that customers, particularly at night, demanded hamburg. If customers asked for the less-costly product, he said he would not buy the more costly...
...first side of the other record is even more obviously conceived in the Mickey Mouse style. Red Norvo and some of his former sidemen of the Brunswick days found the kaleidoscopic score so complicated that they had to cut it nine times and even then the finished product sounded like nothing so much as St. Vitus's dance set to music...
Intelligent cooperation on the part of all the people is a dream which may possibly be fulfilled in the nebulous future. The cooperation and coordination which have in the past enabled the United States to rise to unpredictable heights have been the product of passions and emotions, such as those produced during the war. The futility of expecting such singleness of purpose to carry over into peacetime living is illustrated by the present conflict over price controls. The majority of the people know that the continuance of controls would be best for the economy as a whole, yet each group...