Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refinery stocks of 437 million bbl., one of the highest early winter supplies in history, chopped back production 5%. Appliances, autos, machine tools all felt a slowdown. Private housing starts dropped 10% to less than 1,000,000 new houses, for the first time since 1947. And as freight-car loadings fell 16% at year's end, railroads were in such a fever to cut rising costs and bolster sagging profits that the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, giants of the industry, talked longingly of merger...
...downside, automen are not only fudging their earlier estimates of 6,100,000 new cars next year. They sold about 5,800,000 in 1957 and at year's end estimated sales of about 5,500,000 in 1958. As for the troubled railroads, they will see still another 5% to 7% drop in passenger traffic, while freight car loadings will show a continuing, but smaller (less than 10%), decline than in 1957. U.S. industry's headlong expansion will taper off in 1958; industry will invest only $34.5 billion in new plants and machines, down 7% from...
...source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making...
Author Shulman plants a Nike missile base in Putnam's Landing, Fairfield County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio...
Into each of these lives plummets a fulsome quota of barracks-room and smoking-car bawdry and a fairly steady drizzle of Shulman's arch patter ("Gloria hasn't been a bit well. She ran into this lobster pot when she was water skiing last summer"). Upon Putnam's Landing itself, in a slap-happy ending, falls a distinctly unguided missile. No such fate has befallen Rally Round, which zoomed with unerring prepublication dispatch to its logical target, Hollywood...