Word: borges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strawberries" runs through elderly Professor Isak Borg's one-day motor trip to receive an honorary degree at a Swedish university, and through old age's dreams of youth and death. Between self-revealing dream sequences, Borg is busy talking to his bitterly perceptive daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), arguing and making-up with his stout-hearted housekeeper (Julan Kindahl), and experiencing three impossibly youthful hitch-hikers and an actress-and-husband couple whom he has picked up on the road to the university...
...Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower's Gettysburg farmhouse to King Saud's Saudi Arabian harem, topped last year's shipment rate by 47%. Borg-Warner's York Division, which normally shuts its window-unit assembly lines by June 30., scheduled production well into July...
Encouraged by rising consumer buying, appliance makers have increased their production schedules, and some are adding to plant facilities. The Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp. last week announced that it will boost second-quarter production 90% over the same period last year...
Beauty & Food. The hard-hit appliance industry came back in strength. Earnings of Whirlpool Corp. were up sharply from last year's 29^ a share to 80^. With sales up 12% in the first quarter, Borg-Warner Corp.'s President Robert S. Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...
...tons next year, says Alcoa Market Researcher E. M. Strauss Jr., who foresees expanding markets in the auto industry, containers and construction. ¶ Appliances will have a banner year, with sales up 5% to more than 15 million units, says President Judson Sayre of Borg-Warner's Norge Division. The industry will sell 16% more automatic washers, 8.3% more clothes dryers, 3.6% more refrigerators...