Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweden's Volvo auto group, aiming for 12,000 U.S. customers in 1957, also brought out a new model. The new Volvo (Latin for "I Roll") is a two-door family sedan with an 85-h.p. engine, a top speed of 95 m.p.h. Its U.S. price of $2,235 includes heater, defroster, whitewall tires...
Most economists are well aware that the problem of inflation is far too complex to be laid at the door of any one group. Dozens of factors contribute, such as high Government spending, support prices for farmers and other subsidized groups, and a faster turnover of loan funds to offset the Federal Reserve Bank's tight-money policy. And in a new study, the Bureau of Labor Statistics points out that prices have actually led wages upward during most of the postwar period...
...town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner, blowing skilled smoke rings and spearing the rings with agile fingers, hoping to attract the lady...
...palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please don't give up any other shows." To a Manhattan interviewer, Godfrey earlier confided some of his trials: "Every Wednesday night I'd go out of the stage door and every week there was this bunch of nuts-that's what they are, nuts-and I'd have to fight my way through to the car. They're just waiting for you to do something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang...
...rising labor costs, said that this week's wage increase will amount to 21? an hour, boost the corporation's annual labor costs by $87 million to $1,543,000,-ooo, which is a record high. But labor refused to have the price hike laid at its door. Said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald: "Even without raising prices and without obtaining greatest output per man-hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel industry, charged Dave McDonald, is trying...