Word: downs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clamping Down. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Heslett Thompson, 22, lost his driving license for attacking a pedestrian who walked in front of his car, and biting off a piece of the man's ear.
Curtiss-Wright Corp. and its Chairman Roy T. Hurley are having their woes in the business of making aircraft engines, but when it comes to press releases, they fly high. Month ago, with sales down from $599 million in 1957 to $389 million in 1958 and still slumping, C-W...
At that point, Chairman Hurley and C-W's board of directors had another piece of news: the company cut its quarterly dividend almost in half, from 62½? to 37½?. Sales for the first nine months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000...
Diminishing Returns. In Pittsburgh, John James, 19, was arrested for stealing one car, stealing a second to push the first when it broke down, then siphoning gas from a third after the second ran out of gas.
"Few men are life-size," Whistler once said-and fewer still combine the gall, gallantry and genius with which Whistler fashioned a larger-than-life legend. Poet and Critic Horace (Amy Lowell) Gregory skirts the legend, feeling that many of the stories are in their anecdotage. He sacrifices color for...