Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European autos, such as Volkswagens, MGs, Renaults and Fiats, buzzed off with 8% of the domestic market, better than double their 1957 record. But the man of the year in autos was American Motors President George Romney, who had staked the fate of his company on the small Rambler and won. As sales soared, he turned American Motors' $11.8 million loss in 1957 into a $26 million 1958 profit, and at year's end sales and profits were still climbing fast...
...only 30%, and employment in the service industries is far more stable than in manufacturing. Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, onetime adviser to President Eisenhower and now chairman of Manufacturers Trust Co.'s finance committee: "The shift from manufacturing to services is comparable to the shift in the American economy in the 19th century from agriculture to manufacturing...
...never lost the patrician air of leadership it gained virtually at its founding in 1862. It still does what the elder J. Pierpont Morgan called "only a first-class business and that in a first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn of the century. From 23 Wall Street the elder J. P. Morgan stopped...
...Goddess. Paddy Chayefsky's ferocious satirade against the American Way of Life is crude, unfair, sometimes simply dull, but it has the power of righteous anger and the services of a richly gifted actress, Kim Stanley (TIME, July...
...Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick...