Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as Studebaker, has made a comeback with the Lark. Through most of 1958, the city and surrounding St. Joseph County constituted a "critical" unemployment area. As sales and production grew steadily smaller, the layoffs mounted, until by March barely 4,700 workers had jobs at the plant. Along with recession slowdowns at other big companies-Bendix Products Division, U.S. Rubber, Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point...
...stickers and 10,000 buttons promoting the Lark, wrote' letters, gave speeches, finally staged a huge parade depicting the company history from Studebaker's first Conestoga wagon in 1852 to the present. The county A.F.L.-C.I.O. council mailed 14,000 letters across the U.S. pushing the Lark. Along South Bend streets, every third street lamp was plastered with...
Costing at least $150 million, the 2,200-man plant will rise on 750 acres of sand dunes along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore, will wedge National into the big-league Chicago market. It will process steel from National's Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, where National will add 500,000 tons of capacity, boost its total to 7,500,000 tons, only 500,000 tons behind fourth-ranking Jones & Laughlin. Counting further expansion at Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, W. Va., National will spend $300 million through...
...needed in U.S. housing. But many economists and housing experts agree that it is all the U.S. can afford at this time, considering the goals of a balanced budget and heavy commitments for national defense. Moreover, it is all the prosperous housing industry really needs to keep booming along at its present fast pace...
...summer heat is high (up to 125° F.) and the land is low (234 ft. below sea level), there is water and there is a major highway (U.S. 99). By car and plane, buyers hustled to the sun-struck sands and low-lying, spiny, green clumps of greasewood along the shores of 30-mile-long Salton Sea. There they plunked down $1.2 million in one week, bringing to more than $30 million the total for lots purchased in the first Salton Sea resort development...