Word: tells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Find Out. In 1925, planning to return for work at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, McElroy took a $100-a-month summer job with Procter & Gamble. Says he: "I was a mail boy. That's where they tell you to open and read everybody's mail. It's one way of finding out what's going on." Ambitious, hard-driving Neil McElroy found out enough to realize that Procter & Gamble, with its incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed...
...weekly wash free for 100 Cincinnati housewives, checks them closely as to their likes and dislikes. In P. & G. beauty salons, ladies have their hair washed with two Procter & Gamble shampoos-one for each side of the head-to find out which they prefer, and why. Advertising studies tell Procter & Gamble whether Tide will sell better if it is white, blue or green, whether another ounce of Joy for the same price will pay for itself in increased sales. As P. & G.'s advertising chief, Neil McElroy was death on guessing about such matters. "I don't want...
...difficult to tell from the Tufts game whether or not goalie Tab Cleary has made a marked improvement, for of his fourteen saves, the vast majority were routine. In its crease, Princeton has alternated Sid Guberman and Bo Torrey, both of whom are of the journeyman variety...
...ever to make a machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how," Friedberg stated...
Announcer on Radio--Well, there it is for the first time, "Baby, You Jes' Wait." If you liked it, why not give us a call and tell...