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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Poulenc produced a clean, clear score for a small orchestra that avoided sonoric effects, used no percussion instruments. He dramatized the woman's breathless silences, when her man speaks at the other end of the line, by surrounding them with tautly suspenseful music. Instead of using leitmotifs to represent love, abandonment, jealousy, he wrote separate sequences for each of the woman's pathetic appeals-her story of a suicide attempt, her memories of a trip, the pet dog that misses its master. Said Poulenc: "I tried to give the music an erotic flavor to show that...
...heavy trading that time and again left the high-speed ticker behind, National Steel gained 5¼ points (to a new high of 84), U.S. Steel picked up 4⅝ (to 944), Bethlehem, Armco and Youngstown all ran higher. And with them went the market. By week's end, shares on the Dow-Jones industrial average had gained 14.24 points to reach a new peak: 602.21, and a level nearly 40% higher than the recession low of 16 months...
Only the most bearish investor could ignore a key theme running through the 1958 fourth quarter and year-end reports. It was the salutary effect of a new drive for efficiency and productivity. A few years ago, declining sales usually meant a decline in profits. But now many a company can post smart profits even when sales dip. Goodyear Tire & Rubber was down 3.8% in sales for 1958, yet managed to hit record profits, up 2% to $6.08 per share. After a poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full...
...salvation lay in scrapping its big-car line for a single, easy-to-build, low-priced small car that did not have to compete on the Big Three's terms. In January 1958, Churchill gathered his top executives and put the question to them; at the end of the less than two hour meeting, the decision was made...
...week's end the court had still to rule on SEC's motions against Guterma, but the Siberia-born financier was also being investigated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Brooklyn grand jury...