Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executives and admen comforted by the fact that they got as many compliments as brickbats. In the complex world of commercial television, one boo means far more than 100 bravos, because it may represent someone who is so mad he'll refuse to buy the sponsor's product...
McHale won a $935,000 settlement for Empire in connection with a product it didn't deliver to the Government. Although it had no contract, Empire had claimed that Government representatives persuaded it to develop facilities to build B-17 bomber struts. It gave up after making only five sets. When McHale got the settlement from the Appeal Board of the Office of Contract Settlement, the Government promptly seized the money to cover excess-profits taxes that Empire owed on other war contracts. Now McHale is seeking, directly from the Government, a $93,500 fee for his legal work...
Whose Coffin Plan? Another McHale client is seeking Government payment for a product it didn't make. This is the Alliance (Ohio) Seamless Casket Co., which claims it developed a new kind of coffin for reburial of American servicemen killed overseas in World War II. It admits that it has no patent, had no contract with and produced no caskets for the Government. The case presented by McHale: the Government saved $12,575,000 by adopting Alliance specifications and giving them to other manufacturers...
...Second World War an American washing-machine company developed a supersonic vibrator that would dry clothes. Few of the machines were sold, however, because housewives complained that they "felt terrible around those things." However, after the company had changed its washing-machine's wave-length, users of its product felt "wonderful." "We're going to put one of those vibrators outside our offices," said the tape recorder," so people will feel wonderful when they...
This should not be very surprising, Graham Taylor is a product of post-war University thinking which links the problems of admissions and financial aid as inseparable. He has had experience "riding the circuit" through Western cities in an effort to get the fabled "All-Around Boy" and the sought-after "Scholar-Athlete" to come to Harvard. He has continued to do it this year, and there are those who say it takes too much of his time...