Word: shocker
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...Treasury Department, looking for new ways to sell war bonds, tried tough talk to sell War Loan VI. Hattie Carnegie, Manhattan couturier, went the Treasury one better. In windows usually devoted to high-priced chichi escapism, Hattie Carnegie tried realism. Her shocker set off protests: one customer complained that after seeing the display, she was unable to eat her lunch at the superswank Colony Club...
...last year's $31,086,053. But it did this by shipping more steel than in any first half-year in its history. Bethlehem Steel kept pace with Big Steel, netting $13,166,381 v. $12,842,000. But the smallish Pittsburgh Steel Co. provided the market-shocker. Its fat profit of $1,021,524 of last year turned into a dismal loss of $72,901 this year...
...gets what, when and why." This is a full 2,000 years and many miles of Marx-marked thought away from Aristotle's "The good of man must be the end of the science of politics." But, though neither idealistic nor pious, the Primer's opening shocker is unquestionably as American and up-to-date as the word "realism...
...Boss Anthony lost no time in letting out the biggest shocker of all: in the first 16 weeks of this year, Colt had managed to lose $1,100,580, had actually been in the red since June 1943. The big question : how could a gunmaker lose money in the greatest war in history...
Calling his latest diatribe "strong meat for babes," the author of The History of Mr. Polly and Mr. Britling Sees It Through published only 2,000 copies of his sensational book, presumably to add to the discomfort of the comfortable classes, who will not be able to buy the shocker when the 2,000 copies are snapped up. If present plans hold, the book will not be published...