Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkly handsome young man with a taste for driving sleek, low-slung cars around the Bardot-shaped coast of the French Riviera. He is also the most loudly acclaimed young violinist to emerge from France since the late Ginette Neveu, who died in a 1949 plane crash. Last week Violinist Ferras turned up in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and from the moment he launched into Brahms's familiar D-Major Concerto, it was clear that he had a blazing, romantic vision and the controlled technique to carry...
...well-founded reports were finally confirmed. Ford Motor Co. announced last week that it will introduce a small or compact car during the 1960 model year, "barring changes in the market or other circumstances." Thus it became the first of the Big Three to go on record, though crash programs of all the companies for small cars have been an open secret for weeks (TIME...
...Europe, an increase in American troop strength and a return of British and French divisions to the continent, possibly Turkish and Italian reinforcements, and a strengthening of NATO's tactical air force. At home the unwise demobilization of our Army strength since Korea should be reversed and a crash ICBM program put into immediate effect...
Such a broad and bright market led many an investor to play the old stubby pencil game of "How much would I have now if . . ." If he had bought 100 shares of some stocks, even at the 1929 pre-crash highs, he would now have a pile. Examples, counting stock splits and dividends, but not counting cash dividends and rights, of how each share multiplied: Stock '29 High (One Share) Last Week Number of Shares Now $ Total Value
...fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with 27 million (60%) unvaccinated. Besides nationwide campaigns, authorities decided on crash programs in known soft spots where epidemics like last year's in Detroit are feared, especially in low-income groups...