Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience in Heraldry. In it were 16 shields, of which six are reproduced below, symbolizing the arms that each of these groups of TIME readers might have worn had they lived before heraldry fell into general disuse. Its purpose was to call attention to TIME'S advertising pages by demonstrating that TIME readers are a most desirable audience for messages...
...days the three men on the fact-finding board had listened as 60 stubborn steelmakers and six stubborn labor leaders made their largely contradictory points. The board wrote its report. Last week, in a body, it went to the White House...
With all its chronic ailments, Broadway was also suffering from the city's investigation into the black market in tickets to hit shows. Twenty-four of the town's ticket brokers had lost their licenses, six more were under charges, and one box-office man had been suspended. The theater's reputable citizens spoke bravely of reform...
...their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from the present 4 a month to 30 (at a retail price of $800 to $3,000 apiece), and expects to double last year...
...Wilson thought that management itself was partly to blame for the union demands. It had not made its case clear to employees and it would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...