Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the most bearish investor could ignore a key theme running through the 1958 fourth quarter and year-end reports. It was the salutary effect of a new drive for efficiency and productivity. A few years ago, declining sales usually meant a decline in profits. But now many a company can post smart profits even when sales dip. Goodyear Tire & Rubber was down 3.8% in sales for 1958, yet managed to hit record profits, up 2% to $6.08 per share. After a poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full...
...seems a sensible idea, and it might have been the theme of a sensible attempt at row-house realism, but Scriptwriter Joseph Stefano has loaded this piece of pizza with a mess of indigestible sentimentality, and Director Martin Ritt has turned it out half-baked. In the last half of the story, even Actor Quinn, usually a rock-solid performer, comes apart like a discouraged anchovy...
...Sprague keynoted the reports at a symposium of several doctors. The theme developed was that new and better surgical and medical treatment and diagnostic methods as well as advances towards prevention can be expected, provided continuous and generous support is given for heart research...
...disagree with the major theme of the editorial, namely, that Harvard should not train so many for the academic world. The greatest influence Harvard can have is in turning out large numbers of teachers. For every teacher trained we produce a multiple of business executives, engineers, statesmen, etc. The teacher in turn, of course, influences the world not only through the classroom but through his writing. A college that contributes a substantial proportion of the outstanding teachers and research men--and obviously the Harvard Ph. D. is going to devote a large part of his time to research even...
...opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists and anarchists, all the way to the Communists, who though few in number, are well financed and gaining sympathizers, thanks to the government's endless plugging of the theme that the only choice open to Spain is "either Franco or Communism...