Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Decisive Weight. Like Novelist Waugh, Escoulin criticizes the U.S. Catholic tendency to act as a social bloc-a condition which he sees "marvelously reflected in the American parish" (especially in small and average towns), where the church, school and parish house "make up a complete social unit sufficient unto itself . . . [and in which] the priest is the little king...
...most of the world, business activity does not touch the mass of the people . . ." As an example of what could be done, FORTUNE cited Sears, Roebuck's new stores in Brazil. To keep the stores going, Sears men had to go about Brazil persuading local manufacturers to make stuff for them to sell. "Sears has linked formerly separated Brazilians into new business currents with one another. This, in a small but significant way, is Reformation...
During World War II, Dow Chemical Co. was assigned a tough job. It had to make synthetic amino acids needed to speed the recovery of wounded soldiers. In doing the job, Dow experimented with chickens, noted that the birds grew bigger and faster when an amino acid called di-methionine was added to their diet. Dow thought di-methionine had commercial possibilities, but there was one hitch: it cost $11 a lb. Dow spent $200,000 on research, another $1,000,000 on a plant in Pittsburg, Calif, with a capacity of 2,000 Ibs. of di-methionine...
...answer, said CABoss O'Connell, was simply that U.S. planemakers were "naturally reluctant" to develop a jet transport ; they feared that they would not get enough orders to make up the development cost. "So long as military orders roll in," said O'Connell, "and Washington debates what it is going to do [about paying for jet transport development], there is little reason to believe that any manufacturer will enter into the jet transport field...
Down and Out has the engaging quality of utter candor. Most depression stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...