Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Motors Corp., hardest hit, with 215,000 workers laid off and all production at a halt, was moving faster last week than even its own executives expected. G.M. expects to have all divisions operating at full speed by Dec. 18. Chevrolet plans to have 63,000 workers back, producing 40,000 cars a week, by about Dec. 16. The 13 Chevy assembly plants are shooting to break the alltime record of 188,410 cars produced last December. Chrysler Corp. finally had to shut down this week for lack of steel, but plans to start up again next week, will...
...make the mistake of thinking those TV cameras are branches of the United States Mint. Dollar bills don't come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column...
...changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely...
...automakers, Willys, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, are scrambling for shares of the growing auto market. G.M.'s Holden subsidiary began in 1948 to produce a small car for Aussie markets, sells 100,000 units annually and posted a profit last year of $34 million. National Dairy Products Corp. this year spent $1,600,000 on new plant, was able to declare a $1,800,000 profit, which covered its entire new investment. The story is the same for Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co., which has nailed down 50% of the market for heavy electrical welding machinery; last...
...Chinese was identified by Peiping as Chang Chien-yu, a member of Red China's Export-Import Corp. The U.S. Embassy said he asked for asylum in the United States, then changed his mind...