Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoted to pleasure and prepared to pay. The Messinas decided that what London vice needed was organization, and they set out to provide it. To his delight, Eugene Messina discovered that it cost no more in legal fines to obstruct a London street with a tart than with a car...
Less than a year ago, Laos was a country so caught in corruption and chaos that it seemed headed for Communism. Now the government is anti-Communist rather than neutralist; ministers no longer hang out at Dirty Dan's nightclub; no ministry can purchase a car without the signature of Phoui or his Finance Minister, and both men are showing an admirable tendency toward writers' cramp. Into this tiny nation of 2,000,000 people, the U.S. has since January 1955 poured $225 million (plus large amounts of classified military aid). The future looks promising, if the past...
...Buckminster Fuller's latest world of geodesic domes, already tapped by architects for everything from Union Tank Car Co.'s roundhouse to theaters, factories and banks, and soon to be used for the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow. Bucky's latest, a 407-ft.-diameter dome for the Oklahoma City Arena, has acquired five saddle-shaped canopies, will shelter 15,000 spectators. Fuller confidently predicts a day when aircraft companies will turn out dome shelters for whole cities...
...truck manufacturers, last week scheduled their best performance of the year. Auto output neared the 2,000,000 mark, 34.7% ahead of last year, and truck production was 36.8% ahead of the same period a year ago. Brisk April buying has firmed industry hopes for a 6,000,000-car year (including a brisk 500,000 imports) and automakers have already started lining up steel for 1960 models...
After four weeks in the doldrums, the stock market came to life last week, pushed into uncharted territory. The Dow-Jones industrials clipped through the old high of 614.69, climbed 18 points for the week to a new record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business...