Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shine. In Anson County, N.C., Police Chief Fred Hyatt stopped a man with a satchel on his back, asked to see the contents, was refused, then, feeling certain that he had caught a bootlegger, sent to town for a search warrant, opened the satchel, found half a gallon of milk...
...apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time. They make labor contracts that run for years, buy raw materials on contracts that run for years, develop and launch...
...industry, long in a slump, is now on the way back. From a total of $400 million in the '20s, hat sales dropped to a low of $250 million in 1953. Part of the trouble was a shift in fashion; the longtime dictum that every woman had to wear a hat to be well dressed almost died in the flight to the suburbs and the new, casual living. But fault also lay with the hatmakers; hats became too silly even for women to wear. Says Designer Victor: "We forgot one thing-to make the hats pretty. All you have...
...long-haired Hollywood model. Balding buyers measure their crowns with a tape sent by Sears, outline their open spaces on paper, pay $109.95 to $224.95 for a toupee-20% down, the rest in six installments. With proper care, which means alternating it with a second wig and sending it back to Sears every month or two for a dry cleaning (price: $5.50 to $7), the toupee should last for two years. Furthermore, boasts Sears: "It is as indistinguishable from the real thing as a falsie...
...this, the third of a projected quartet of novels, Author Durrell continues the febrile investigation of life and love in prewar Egypt so splendidly begun in Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957) and Balthazar (TIME, Aug. 25, 1958). Most of the same characters are still loping through the bedrooms and back alleys of Alexandria: Pursewarden, the slightly mad novelist-diplomat; Justine, the dark-browed, amoral Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire Coptic Christian husband; Darley, the sad-sack Irish schoolteacher; Melissa, the tuberculous Greek dancer. But the protagonist of this new book is a relative newcomer, David Mountolive, who returns to Egypt...