Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud, ordered the soldier to write 25 concise words on the differences between ham and Virginia...
...agreed last month, under Federal Trade Commission pressure, to quit advertising that the product "assures good health and restores youthful feeling and appearance...
With a sharp eye for a competitor's product, Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, back from getting a new movie rolling in Germany, had a prediction: "I would say if the political and military situation remain the same, some of our strongest competition two years from now will come from the German film market...
...Almost a Scoundrel." The product of generations of Danish seafarers, Isbrandtsen came to the U.S. just before World War I to help start a shipping agency in New York. Within a week, young Hans had chartered a ship, loaded it with grain, and sent it to sea. Later he formed a partnership with a cousin who was in the shipping business in Denmark. The business flourished until World War II (Isbrandtsen became naturalized in 1936), but then their ships were taken over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook...
Last week, sponsored by Sir Alexander Korda, who finances and distributes their product and gives them a cut in the profits, Launder & Gilliat were making the most of their independence. While Launder worked on a film called Beauty Queen (about "the kind of a girl who starts in the News of the World and ends up there, too"), Gilliat was mulling over a movie biography of Gilbert & Sullivan...