Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard is about to be blessed with another of the child prodigies which have so frequently filled its halls-but this time it's the real thing. Martin G. Ettlinger, 16-year old boy wonder from Austin, Texas, will enter the Business School as soon as he's put the finishing touches...
Last week he began to wonder whether the pursuit of his business-and-hobby the composition of the U.S. Navy, wasn't getting to be too much of a good thing. He had little peace and less leisure. His phone rang all day. His little office was busy as an anthill. And he had to hire a secretary...
Suits & Counter Suits. While Lever Bros, was still experimenting with its floating wonder (already dubbed "Swan" and being tested in key sales areas), Procter & Gamble, in 1940, came out with a "new Ivory" also made by a continuous process. In February 1941, Lever cracked down on the "new Ivory" in the Baltimore courts with a patent-infringement suit. Less than two months later P. & G. hit back with a Cincinnati plea for an injunction against the sales of Swan as an obvious and unfair imitation of Ivory...
...scrimping manufacturers, who had seen nearly two long years elapse since that "emergency" project first hit the headlines, had almost forgotten there was such a thing in prospect. If it is really going to stand on its own feet after the war it will have to be a wonder of low-cost smelting efficiency, for the Bolivian ore it will handle is strictly grade B, and the British-Dutch tin cartel is no mean competitor...
...entering Freshman in the twenties found "college life" ample justification for getting a college education. The Freshman of the thirties was a more serious fellow, anxious to find in his courses the solution to the problems which beset his era. Towards the end of the decade he began to wonder whether that solution really existed. Now that war has climaxed the debacle, the Freshman of the forties is tempted to see in it the ultimate expression of his problems, and to feel that military victory is the final answer, military effort the final method. But the war is only...