Word: fervor
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...make sure that his 1,400 production employees share the fervor, President Beveridge has a profit-sharing plan, maintains an elective employees' council to keep working conditions up to snuff. So well does the system work that the 800-man Easthampton plant now has 5,000 job applications in its files and a labor turnover of only 2%. Everyone at Stanley belongs to what they call the B.C.H. Club. Full name: Bright, Cheerful & Happy...
Vanity Fair. Businessmen saw the signs and began to act accordingly. They hit the door-to-door trail of salesmanship with some of their oldtime evangelical fervor. Cried the Southern Wholesale Confectioners Association: "Early to bed, early to rise, work like heck and advertise." Businessmen did indeed advertise-the more than $400 million spent in newspapers in 1949 was the greatest ever. They also cut prices, squared off against their competitors, and ran their own private giveaway programs. Many appliance sellers threw in $40 worth of frozen meat with every freezer; in Milwaukee, a furniture store offered a free airplane...
...army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
...once an aloof personality with a tendency to talk down to his audiences, showed a new character in the Liberal-Country Party campaign. He mingled with audiences, took heckling good-naturedly, responded genially to hails of "Bob" from the crowd. He banged away at a single theme with crusading fervor: "We've come round again to a crucial decision. A vote for Labor means a vote for the ultimate bereavement of freedom." Labor retorted, "Vote for Bob and lose your job!" The Liberals countered with a crack at socialistic regimentation: "Vote for Bob and choose your...
...their ancient seat, a mansion on a lake-island in Yorkshire, and had even fought off Oliver Cromwell with swivel guns and muskets. It was no wonder, then, that when Charles, 2yth Lord of Walton, grafted a mad passion for wild life onto the old family root of religious fervor, the resulting bloom resembled a Jesuit seminary disguised as a bird sanctuary...