Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bottom? When will the economy turn up again? At first the crystal-ball-gazers looked for an upturn starting at midyear. Now they have put the turn farther off, barring a tax cut that might give the U.S. a fast boost. Most economists agree with harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, who says: "It will be six months before the economy shows much pep." They think the recession will reach bottom soon, may be there even now. Then, say economists, it will rock along on a relatively even keel for six months or more before turning gradually upward...
...crystal-ball gazers who try to chart the course of the U.S. economy usually hedge any predictions with plenty of ifs and buts. Last week the U.S. got a refreshingly different kind of forecast from Carrol M. Shanks, president of the Prudential Insurance Co., second biggest in the U.S. (first: Metropolitan Life). Said Insuranceman Shanks: "I'm optimistic. We're pretty close to the end of the downgrade, and we should see an upturn before long. Steel production will start up in March, if not sooner, because steel sales have been running ahead of production; so will textile...
...bigger, six-passenger Model 18 transport-trainer, made 7,400 units and millions in profits from every branch of the armed forces. With peace both companies faced some agonizing reappraisals. Beech wanted to merge with Cessna. Dwane Wallace refused, doggedly set about finding civilian markets once it became crystal-clear that the day of the flying flivver had not yet quite arrived...
...Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a doctorate in physics. During World War II he headed...
...crystal-chandeliered salon, the press was dead silent as the first model swirled in, wearing a sprig of Dior's favorite flower, lily of the valley, on her suit. But as the third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed...