Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the first producer discovered it was bad business to hurt people's feelings, movie-making has been an industry in sneakers, carefully and profitably tip-toeing around any problem liable to jar the customer's ego. During these 40-odd years, Hollywood has kept its eye fixed steadily on the Box Office as the one valid index of public morality and has consequently built up a picture of American life which is as false as it is glossy and as harmful as it is complacent. Now, at last, this bright veneer shows signs of wearing thin. Movies...
Ominous Buffalo. Nobody but the professional astrologers ever know just when Thí-gya-min is coming or with what^ omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...
...Kerr canning-jar people, Jacob's tithing vow is more than a wall motto. It is a way of doing business: every time Kerr makes a dollar, God gets a dime...
Ruth Kerr is a blue-eyed, plump, soft-spoken woman who believes that the Lord will provide, but that a body ought to help Him all she can. She has increased the company's output elevenfold, partly by branching out into making jars for industrial canners. She walks around her plants in sensible shoes, and shuttles between factories by plane. Last year her company turned out more than 100 million jars, not far behind Muncie's Ball Brothers Co., the biggest U.S. canning-jar maker. Last week, in a nip & tuck battle with Ball...
...what God has done." God has been a partner in the company since 1902, when debt-ridden Alexander Kerr, an obscure wholesale grocery man, took the tithing vow at Portland, Ore. Three months later, Kerr took a chance: he borrowed money to buy a patent on a glass vacuum jar that could be sealed at home. Kerr got a San Francisco glass works to supply his materials, and in four years had a profitable business...