Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
...Greenwich, Conn. An ardent New Dealer, she fought tooth and nail for the 1938 wage-hour bill, chairmaned the House Labor Committee from 1937-47, insisted on her dignity and equality in the halls of Congress (once when a House member referred to her as a lady, she snapped back, "I'm no lady. I'm a member of Congress...
Died. Don Luigi Sturzo, 87, priest, brilliant political theorist and grand old man of Italian politics, who led Italy's Roman Catholics back into politics after the bitter break with secular leaders, following Italy's unification, founded (1919) the broad-based Popular Party, largely Catholic but independent of the Vatican, which steered an enlightened middle course between burgeoning extremists of left and right, rose after the Fascist interlude to be Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini...
Nosing down are U.S. shipments of aircraft (foreign lines are waiting for the jets), cotton (buyers are holding back for a price cut expected later this year), coal (Europe has a big surplus). Dropping also are exports of machinery and steel, cars and oil, for the same reasons that U.S. imports of them are steaming up: the foreign products are plentiful, low in price and of good quality. Comparing the first halves of 1958 and 1959, U.S. imports of electrical apparatus, electronics parts and transistor radios went up from $72 million to $96 million, imports of industrial machinery from...
Even stocks of electronics makers who sell chiefly to consumers sold off easily. Zenith Radio Corp. established a first-half record with earnings of $1.66 per share v. $1.01 last year, but lost 14⅛ points during the week. Philco Corp. came back from a $1,400,000 loss in the first half last year to earn 54? per share for the first six months of 1959, was off 2⅞ for the week. Motorola, which set a second-half record with $3.04 per share v. 76? last year, dipped seven points...