Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Recently two enthusiasts were persuaded to feed each other chunks of blueberry pie while blindfolded, making appropriate dinner-table chitchat as they went along. Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners...
Like Henry Ford, who standardized automobiles and put them within reach of everybody, Emily Post made polite manners a commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...
Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
...Americanism: countries like Chile, in this emergency, in some respects deserve the status of a 49th State. Chile's copper economy depended on lost European markets; France took 121,000 tons in the first four months of 1940, had 100,000 tons more on order when Hitler put her out of business. Chile's annual capacity is nearly 500,000 tons, almost entirely for export. Recently she has been selling to Japan. But Chile wants to create a steel industry (providing a domestic copper outlet); for this and less ambitious purposes she badly needs U. S. manufacturers...
...never been a real market insider. He never learned that sometimes it was better to take stock than cash, better to get stock control of a business to tide a man over his old age. He was a trader, a gambler-one of the sharpest. When, last spring, he put his system down on paper and reopened his office to trade on commission for customers, it was a sign that he was through. No man who could make money for himself ever told the public...