Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor start talking ("Why so sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage...
...over the 10 million-ton mark for the eighth straight month. While home building trailed last year's record level by 17% in 1956's first five months, largely because of the credit pinch, the Administration hinted last week that easier mortgage money is on the way. Auto dealers throughout the U.S. were paring inventories of unsold 1956 models at the rate of 4,000 cars...
...Despite auto layoffs, employment and factory earnings in May topped last year's record levels for the same month. The brightening outlook was reflected on Wall Street: the stock market last week more than recovered the points lost on news of President Eisenhower's illness...
...Stalin mausoleum in Red Square in his powder-blue marshal's uniform, Tito ignored the sarcophagus of Stalin, gave a passing glance to that of Lenin. His 5 ft. wreath was marked "To Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" from "Josip Broz Tito." At a workers' meeting at the Moskva Auto Works (formerly the Stalin Auto Works), he said that after an absence of ten years he was glad to meet some people who were not afraid to look him in the eye and speak...
...Blizzard. The trouble-beset auto industry seemed to be finally digging itself out of the blizzard of unsold 1956 models. Final figures for May showed new car inventories at 800,000 units, down 70,000 from April. With June production scheduled for only 446,000 units, some 3% less than June 1955, automakers expect to cut inventories another 100,000 by the first of July. Led by Chevrolet, which has sold a whopping 822,729 cars and trucks in 1956's first five months, only 820 fewer than the 1955 record, many companies reported sharp sales spurts...