Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom in menthol cigarettes is the hottest fad to strike the industry since filters. Almost overnight, menthols have grabbed 10% of the market, are expected to crack 13% by year's end. Makers have discovered to their delight that menthol carries a vague connotation of healthful medication, especially attracts women with its taste...
...thing: repair and replace some 40,000 ailing machines that had brought complaints from owners. Last week Hotpoint's 11,000 appliance dealers were busy doing just that-at a cost that the industry estimates will be somewhere between $7 million and $10 million by year's end. Said a Hotpoint official: "Every mass-produced product is vulnerable to mistakes...
...combinations. Result: the company tried a little bit of everything. Now, under a revamped management team, Hotpoint has completely overhauled its testing and quality control to catch potential defects. The replacement program has generated so much good will for Hotpoint that the company, despite its large outlay, expects to end the year well in the black...
...week's end Assistant New York District Attorney James V. Hallisey flew to Rio to test whether Lowell Birrell would come back willingly to stand trial. If Birrell has a change of heart, the Brazilian government, despite the lack of an extradition treaty with the U.S., can probably find ample cause to put him on a New York-bound plane...
...bronze Muse from the era of Praxiteles and a fifth century marble column with the head of Hermes. Archaeologists speculate that an exporter may have warehoused the statues for shipment to Imperial Rome some time during the Augustan Age. and then lost track of them. At week's end four new finds were reported, including a bronze shield covered with bas-reliefs. Feverish digging continued. The street may yield more still...