Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What this country needs is more bum music, provided it is handmade rather than a product of the machine...
...Harvard man. This assumption, current in the provincial towns of New Haven, Princeton, and Hanover, is as superstitious as the one which holds that every German is like Hitler or every American a Jim Farley. Instead, every Harvard man places foremost the fact that he represents no type, no product. Neither does a Harvard man have an accent. Certainly accents to exist in Cambridge; they are two kinds: Back Bay and affected. As for clothes, keep in mind the ancient aphorism: "Clothes make the Williams man, but the Radcliffe girl makes...
President Randolph's contract was the product of a twelve-year campaign. Born in Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...this was raw material for a very pretty business feud, but President Shaughnessy declined to make it into a finished product. He kept his head, kept his own counsel and kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...
Blony's chief claim to commercial prestige is that it is bigger than any other piece of bubble gum offered for a penny. Base of all bubble gums is a synthetic rubber product combined with hydrogenized vegetable oils and synthetic resins. "Blony," which is flavored with what Bubbleman Bowman calls "fruit characteristic," weighs 210 grains and advertises "Three Big BITES for a penny," has made Gum, Inc. the biggest firm in the U. S. catering exclusively to the penny gum trade...