Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give-away shows have been unable to think of any reason (except the watchful FCC) why they should change their ways...
What's needed, concluded the London Daily Express, is a new name for television-"some catchy, friendly word which can be called over the garden fence without sounding silly." Even the inventive U.S. had been unable to think up anything better than video...
...most for their corn, many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...
...anybody thought the meat packers were getting rich on the present market, they had another think coming. Armour & Co. last week said that livestock prices had gone "far beyond levels warranted by the selling price of meats." Armour had tied up so much of its cash in inventory that it could not pay a dividend. Its stock promptly dropped 2⅜ points to 10¼, the low for the year, and touched off selling in other meat-packing stocks...
...ahead. Long before steelmen began worrying about exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals Co. (a 12% interest) because its raw materials (phenol and formaldehyde) come...