Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been dramatizing important works of modern literature, e.g., Forster's A Passage to India and Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, with casts including such important movie stars as Herbert Marshall and Deborah Kerr. The program was a cultural hit; six U.S. universities have offered home-study courses in conjunction with the show. But it was no big-audience...
...first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England. In July, at Children's Hospital in Boston, Bruce's breathing was electrically controlled for six days before the disease receded. Six machines are now ready for use. By New Year's they will be generally available, at about $275 each...
...pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...
...With his labor troubles settled, he has pulled his operating costs per revenue ton mile down to 36.44?, but according to CAB, they're still above Eastern. Although National wound up fiscal 1949 last June with a piddling $38,963 profit, it earned $866,000 in the last six months of that year, thanks partly to a big boost in mail pay over 1948. On the expectation of continued profits he is buying two new DC-6s and arranging for the lease of three more four-engined planes. When all are in service next year, National will have...
When Schulte turned in a $93,091 loss for the first six months of 1949, the directors eased President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...