Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers admitted that they never thought about the years ahead. Typical comment: "What's the hurry? When the time comes, I guess I'll know what...
...nervous afternoon in the second round and dropped to fourth, came back next day to grab the lead. She finished with a 72-hole total of 299, coasting home in her dandy underwear to her first Titleholders title, five strokes in front of Texan Betty Dodd, eight ahead of Defender Berg...
...beginning of next year; only one-tenth expected their rate of earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store sales to start off March...
...ENGLAND, whose chronically ill textile industry has been in bad shape for years, is in deepening recession despite a flood of new electronics plants. Unemployment claims are 100% higher than last year at this time; auto sales are down sharply; and retail business, which was ahead for January (up 3%), took a sudden 29% drop during the February snows, has not yet recovered. Yet mortgage foreclosures are still at a minimum, and such a sensitive economic barometer as New England's winter-sport industry shows a 12% increase...
...rate that some 75 new plants are under construction to add more electronics, nuclear energy, plastics, clothing, to the area's economy. Peak unemployment hit 45,000 out of 675,000 working in mid-February, but now companies are rehiring workers. Housing in Suffolk County is 100% ahead of last year; Long Island retail sales are ahead, and while autos are down, loans on boats at the Franklin National Bank (total resources: $517 million...