Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter the red dots on the corresponding part of the red tube...
...There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France from sliding into the collectivist pitfall. Their answer to the welfare state is to look after their workers' welfare themselves. Their attitude, they...
...only consolation for coaches still brave enough to play Notre Dame was the fact that Leahy would lose six ends, four tackles and assorted other stars by graduation after this season. But that did not make life much brighter for coaches and players at Michigan State, North Carolina, Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist. They still had to play Notre Dame this year...
...felt any real pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...
...office seemed to be climbing steadily out of its long postwar slump. Last week the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...