Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the revolution in egg raising. Not only do today's hens lay twice as many eggs per bushel of feed as their grandmothers did, but their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise enough eggs for all the population east of the Rockies...
...Times consists of more than news columns, and its Sunday magazine appears heavily loaded with articles by "liberal" correspondents (including a number of the more literary Senators). It has been charged that its Book Review section often ignores or blasts "conservative" books of high quality, and that its "News of the Week in Review" (after the first two pages) often shows a decidedly "liberal" slant...
...before, off Block Island, the Enterprise had won the American Cup Series. In the exciting new world of talking pictures, the front runner, ironically enough, was "All Quiet on the Western Front," and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. starred in "The Way of All Men." In the Times' Sunday book review section, Al Capone--The Biography of a Self-made Man was offered for sale...
Amid the ad-rich thickness (12 sections, 5 lbs.) of last Sunday's New York Times, folded between the polite Book Review and the dignified Sunday Magazine, was a new, 16-page section that promised everything from history to sex-with four-color photography. The great stone face of Gary Cooper, garbed as a U.S. cavalryman (circa 1916) frowned from the cover, Vilma Banky and Marlene Dietrich appeared on pages 4 and 5, Rita Hayworth curved across pages...
...Times's Section 10 was a paid ad ($52,000) for Columbia's yet-to-be-released epic, They Came to Cordura, starring Cooper, Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. It was eloquent testimony to Columbia's big bet on Cordura-$250,000 for the book (about "Black Jack" Pershing's punitive expedition against Pancho Villa), $4,500,000 for the production. As for the Sunday Times, it might never completely recover its customary dignity after the headline on the Hayworth article: Sex Goddess Goes Straight. But Columbia feels the ad will "raise the stature...