Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building up stocks in case of a steel strike. The industry estimated that cars in dealers' hands rose to 900,000, highest in three years, but carmakers did not seem worried so long as sales were still climbing. They plan no major cutback in production until the end of July. The good performance so far this year-some experts predict a 6,000,000-car year - has not changed Detroit's view about the small car. Last week Pontiac and Oldsmobile joined the parade with plans to put out their own compact cars for the fall...
...face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other investments. But the hike did not faze the stock market, which has dropped more than once at such news. At week's end. it forged ahead to a new record high of 643 on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
...whipped over the top of the world to Rome in n hr. 6 min., breaking the 4,225-mile nonstop commercial record claimed by the Russians with their TU-114. For overseas jet passengers, the new plane's 5,830-mile flight means an eventual end to the stopoffs now necessary on many transatlantic jet hops with the 707-120, which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines it cannot come too soon. Jet travel has caught on so well that the jets are operating...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...
...controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned out to be the stone pillow of an early saint...