Word: clips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powerful Stimulant. Signs of second-half improvement are already visible. Steel orders show promise of increasing (see below). Auto sales in mid-July hit the fastest clip in four years, with dealers selling an average of 17,485 U.S.-built cars daily. For the first six months, the new compacts accounted for 25.1% of the market. Last week General Motors was readying its new compact, one of a new group of scaled-down big cars that will hit the 1961 market. Its name: the Oldsmobile F-85, a smaller version of its big-car brother with a new eight-cylinder...
...short of record 1959. The reason was no big slump in business-most sales were as good as or better than last year-but rising costs that chewed up profits, and high inventories caused by overoptimistic expectations. With the U.S. consumer presumably poised to buy at an even faster clip in the second half of 1960, most businessmen were confident that better profits were...
...clip Quesada's power, Sayen has persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting...
...exports last year reached a record $9,676,800,000 (v. $6,317,000,000 in 1950), Britain faces serious dollar difficulties. Last winter the government relaxed the last major restrictions against dollar imports, and since then, British merchants have been buying from the U.S. at a record clip. In the first quarter of 1960, U.S. sales to Great Britain are up 61%. But British sales to the U.S. are up only 14%. Great Britain has opened a drive to increase sales to the U.S. to avert a return to the unpopular import restrictions...
...Clip Joints. In Detroit, a sign in the window of the Varsity Barber Shop an nounced: "We repair $1. $1.35 and $1.50 haircuts here for $1.75.'' Cowed. In Buenos Aires. Aerotrans-portes del Litoral Argentine canceled all flights to Santiago del Estero. where farmers, despite repeated requests and two near crashes, continued to graze cows on the landing strip...