Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland Press, Stewart felt like a fattened turkey under the ax. To Stewart, who had been night editor, sports editor and state editor of the Scripps-Howard Press (circ. 282,000), the promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then he got an idea from St. Matthew ("I was a stranger, and ye took me in") for a new kind of church column: he decided...
...market gave the bears some mild encouragement; the Dow-Jones industrial average closed last week at 173.49. off 1.71 points. Did the big rise in "shorts" mean that the market was likely to keep on going down? Paradoxically, many Wall Streeters thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...
When members of the potent Du Pont family began buying into Butler Bros, two years ago, many a Wall Streeter thought "smart money" had moved in, and jumped aboard. They liked it even better when the smart money brought in a smart new president, handsome, hustling G. Robert Herberger (TIME, Aug.11, 1947), a onetime clerk in St. Cloud, Minn. (pop. 25,000) who had made a big name in retailing...
Everyone had different ideas on what was wrong. Some oldtimers at Butler Bros, thought Retailer Herberger had neglected the wholesale end of the business, which had been a moneymaker. Others thought he had scrambled wholesale & retail together until nobody could find his way through either. Herberger blamed his troubles on deadwood in the company -and hacked away. So many officers and employees left that gagsters called Butler Bros, the Montgomery Ward annex. Finally, aging Thomas Freeman, who was boosted to chairman when Herberger replaced him as president, quit in disgust...
...galaxy. One of the oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world after it has been destroyed in the Third, Fourth or Fifth World...