Word: publicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solve Puerto Rico's problem. If the island is to build a sound economy, and to live without the crutch of federal handouts, it needs private industry and old-fashioned capitalist help. Says Muñoz: "I am out to increase production by any possible means-private, public, or mixed, as the case may be." To describe his government's part in industrial development, he coined his own neatly tailored phrase: "venture government." As Muñoz sees the problem: "Somebody's got to take the chance, and if private capital won't, we have...
...open-necked shirt. "Putting on a necktie," he says, "alters a man's whole character." He worked odd hours, thought nothing of sitting up all night in a good political discussion. As Governor, he has modified many of his old habits, and now usually turns up in public looking clean but rumpled in a seersucker suit with a sober four-in-hand tie. He puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During inauguration week, when he wore a white tie and tails for the first time in his life...
...public's musical taste? Bah!" declared testy Sir Thomas Beecham. "The public never had taste-only an appetite . . . They'll listen to anything, just as they'll eat anything, however ill-cooked...
Rarely has a show reached its 100th-performance milestone in spite of a hostile press. All for Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
...considering such a car, he said, because motorists "want the best they can get for their money and are too accustomed to the convenience and ease offered by standard-size cars." The average length of motor trips is almost twice what it was prewar, said Ford, and the public is all in favor of the bigger luggage space in the postwar cars. "Such improvements," he said, "certainly cannot be made by materially reducing the size...