Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater" was pushed off gay, white Broadway into the dusky sidestreets of Manhattan, when the movies killed vaudeville and when the movies in turn were nearly killed by TV-each time, the gloomy mourned the past and doubted the future of show business. Yet each time, show business continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating...
...medley, an American mark (20:34.6) in the 1,500-meter freestyle. In the one event where the two met, Sylvia used her greater strength to outlast the smoother-stroking Chris in the 400-meter freestyle. At week's end, U.S. prospects for dethroning the Australian girls looked brighter...
There were significant items on the brighter side. In food, Safeway Stores showed that consumers are going right on buying, with sales up 4% to almost $1 billion for 1958's first 24 weeks and a record profit of $14.9 million, up more than 7% over last year. In electronics, International Business Machines reported first-half sales in the U.S. of $564.6 million (up 19%) and earnings of $50.6 million (up 20%), both new records...
...statistics looked brighter than at any time since the start of the recession, but the National Association of Purchasing Agents said: "None of the reporting members expresses any optimism over the immediate term. The majority look for no major breakthrough in the current lull before the year end or early...
...molasses-smothered beans inside, has since redesigned nearly all its 250 labels. One manufacturer put out cotton-tipped swabs in three colors: white, pink and chartreuse. White and pink were fine; chartreuse flopped because it reminded women of baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain...