Word: shoptalking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. (which has been studying the popular appeal of movies for about nine years) served notice that Mr. Hooper would have to move over in the radio field. Hereafter, sponsors will be supplementing their shoptalk about Hooperatings with a stunning new trade term that Dr. Gallup calls E.Q. (Enthusiasm Quotient...
Philip spent hours along the Moray Firth soaking up the shoptalk of fishermen and boatbuilders. At night he would stand watch with coast guardsmen in their lonely huts high over the harbor. As a scholar he was only fair, but when he left school after four years he took with him the highest honor for seamanship...
...TIME [Feb. 17], how are the "200 earnest characters" who met for "shoptalk about sterility" (p. 56) like the "characters [who] paid 50? to get in" to "sleazy Stillman's Gym" (p. 61)? Or like the "characters not out of the stock-type catalogue" (p. 64) ? Or like the "characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology...
Last week 200 earnest characters met in Los Angeles for pregnant shoptalk about sterility. With straight scientific faces, the American Society for the Study of Sterility (western branch) sat down to consider the fact that one-seventh of all U.S. couples are childless, and why. When Paul Popenoe, director of Los Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations, rose to speak, he nearly stopped the show. Said...
...banquet halls and smoke-filled rooms in Washington and Manhattan, U.S. publishers, editors and newsmen grappled last week with the postwar problems of the press. One was a tough nut that no amount of shoptalk seemed to crack: how to achieve the worldwide free trade in information that would help men know and understand each other? The matter was urgent: the headlines told of censorship trouble in Iran one day, news suppression in Bulgaria the next...