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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week better displayed than at the President's news conference. Visibly buoyed by the capital's warming weather, he opened the session with a reference to haunting lines of the Song of Solomon: "The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.'' Ike looked well and obviously felt well: for the next 30 minutes he staged a performance that turned out to be his best conference since his stroke...
...president of the huge (1,500,000-member) United Auto Workers, fire-breathing Walter Philip Reuther is a powerful organizer, bargainer, administrator, politician, social reformer. In addition, red-haired Walter Reuther is a shrewd, smooth public-relations man. Last week, invited to Washington to appear before the McClellan committee, Reuther found a capacity crowd on hand for the fireworks. But any public-relations man could recognize that the time was wrong for fireworks. In Detroit tough negotiations between the U.A.W. and the big three auto companies were under way in a climate of depression and gloom, with few rank...
Profit at 50%. In paper, the signs of a bottoming out were also starting to appear. St. Regis Paper's Chairman Roy K. Ferguson, while noting that net sales were down 8% to 10% so far this year, reported that customers were beginning to ask for immediate delivery, a sure sign that "inventory reductions are nearing the point where we should feel the impact of an upturn by not later than midyear." As for steel, which so far has borne much of the brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
South Pacific (Magna Releasing Corp. and 20th Century-Fox), as a Broadway musical, had so much vim and vinegar that it would be almost impossible to make a bad movie out of it-but the moviemakers appear to have tried...
...they say down Texas way, "Yew kin saddle the wind, but yew cain't ride it." Taking the bitter with the better, Saddle the Wind is a pretty good western. Rod Serling's script is intelligible, and Actor Taylor has acted in enough horse operas to appear at ease on a horse...