Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was positive good news, too, to encourage the market. Department-store sales were still running at a record pace. Higher military spending and more rapid contract-letting promised to spur defense industries, while relaxed credit requirements for FHA home buyers (see Housing) promised to give the housing industry, already on the upgrade, another boost...
LEADING CONTENDER for $500 million supersonic fighter contract for 300 jets for West German air force is Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 Starfighter, with Grumman's swept-wing Tiger and France's delta-wing Dassault Mirage close behind. Germans turned down Britain's experimental Saunders...
...Auricular fibrillation, when the heart's upper chambers twitch irregularly and contract too rapidly, is frightening to victims: in brief attacks it may cause a "heart in the mouth" feeling and palpitations; over longer periods it can lead to heart failure. It is also difficult to diagnose because early attacks often pass before a doctor can get there. A unique study of 113 men and women of five generations in one family-compiled by Dr. William L. Gould of Albany, N.Y. and reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine-shows that in an occasional case fibrillation neither causes disability...
...director of T.W.A. both Hughes and Burgess said that parting was "friendly," and Hughes praised Burgess for his "great engergy, dedication and devotion to T.W.A." But the two could not agree on how to run the airline and on future policy, and Burgess tore up his three-year contract...
...most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management. It put in a profit-sharing plan, and was the first French company to give all workers a paid three-week vacation. In 1955 Renault routed the Communists for good by signing a contract with non-Communist unions calling for an automatic 4% wage boost every year...