Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moore's main studio, about 100 yards from his home in the small hamlet of Perry Green, there stands a recently completed bronze figure of a woman, her belly distended with an unborn child that could almost be moving, her neck and her back strained so that the bones and ligaments stand out. "As I was making that figure," says Henry Moore, "I was rubbing my mother's shoulder again. She was constantly in my mind. Those moments all become a part of the sculpture...
...that the strike will continue into October, when steel inventories will become exhausted and the economy will be hard hit by the strike. If this happens, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell said he would recommend that the President invoke the Taft-Hartley Law. Such action would send the Steelworkers back to work for about 80 days, give a fact-finding board time to study the issues and try to persuade both sides to settle. If no settlement is reached during the 80-day cooling off period then the strike would resume...
...based their forecast on the fact that each postwar cycle has had two or three years of expansion, followed by one or two years of contraction. The current boom got under way 17 months ago, and the key indicators are cycling ahead of schedule. Manufacturers' new orders snapped back to pre-slump peaks in 13 months v. 17 months in the 1953 slump, 16 months in the 1948 slowdown; personal income recovered peak levels in 14 months v. 16 months in the other two postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant and equipment...
...nation's 18 million teen-agers began heading back to high school and college last week, there was a new look: the neatnik had replaced the beatnik. Out were dungarees, sloppy slacks, baggy sweaters, etc. Reflecting the back-to-school buying surge, department-store sales across the nation rose 20% over a year ago. Said Teen-Age Research Expert Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their...
Tights and leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...