Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early Riser Carter is an old hand at cockcrow broadcasting, has been doing Early Risers Clubs since 1932 for WIP (Philadelphia), WMCA (Manhattan). He was once as offensively cheery as his glad-voiced fellows. He invented Jim Grouch for use as a horrible example on such Pollyanna programs, decided only last month, after a night of insomnia, that Jim Grouch had the right...
...busy Hamilton, island capital and chief tourist port, Competitor Furness and Canadian National Railways occupy all four berths, which meant that Eastern would have had to anchor in the harbor and ferry its passengers ashore. Best alternative was to use the harbor at sleepy St. George, where the piers are owned by the St. George Corporation. Hitch there was that there was only one hotel, the St. George, which is so regularly patronized that it never needs to advertise. Obvious solution lay in the ship-hotel idea, used successfully for years by cruise ships in Bermuda, but not by regularly...
...open, but when it is contracted, air rushing up from the lungs during speech cannot find room enough to vibrate the vocal cords. Then, instead of a healthy, he-man holler, there emerges only a high, husky whisper. Before doctors discovered how to prevent this condition by the use of throat-tubes and toxoids* such stenosis (contraction) of the larynx was a frequent aftereffect of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Today, the largest number of laryngeal deformities is caused by accidents, not by disease...
...LL.B. Berle challenged the prevailing belief in the efficiency of large-scale production: "It is familiarly insisted that the old-fashioned farm was an inefficient unit. Yet if, besides the assumed cost of production, there were taken into account the continuity of employment, the ability to use energies of adolescents and of old people, the ability to take care of sickness and give some scope for individual creation and the like, it might prove that ... the old-fashioned farm was one of the most effective units known...
...general program: "It is probably more effective to assist competition rather than legislate the large unit out of existence. . . . Where a high degree of competition will accomplish the result [a business system that actually works], that should be the method used. Where a high degree of cartelization under suitable control will accomplish the result, that should be the method. Where quasi-public owner ship produces the result, use that...