Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sales of passenger cars in 1954, said Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert, will reach 5,000,000 "and perhaps several hundred thousand more." Said "Tex" Colbert: "The big overwhelming reason for optimism is that the whole economy is at the beginning of a great era of growth, not at the end . . . Economic progress, once it gets rolling, never finds a place to park and rest...
...produces a pictorial report, as in the University of Chicago's handsome Persepolis (see pictures on following pages). But again and again, researchers market their researches as historical fiction. This fall, with the Christmas trade in cheerful mind, publishers have trundled out something new from almost every surefire era. A sampling...
...Yale, a last minute touchdown pass against Princeton Saturday ended both a six-year era of Big Three mediocrity, and some newer 1953 discouragements. Starting with the pro-season injury to Ed Eolloy and extending to disheartening ties with Cornell and Colgate, and an amazing 32 to 0 loss to Dartmouth, the Elis, picked as one of the East's best teams in August, had shown a disturbing fall impotence...
...helicopter,* and more recent work in which he has helped bring the device to its present state of windmilling efficiency. Today, at 64, he is not only an honored pioneer of the brave, oil-spattered world of pre-Sarajevo aviation but also the paramount prophet of a completely new era of flight...
Buttons & Bows. Toscanini has a special fondness for his old house in Milan, and spent the early part of his summer there. He had it decorated to his taste around 1908, a Victorian era hodgepodge of heavy furniture and silk brocade walls and draperies, has refused to have it redecorated since. The only change he permits is the rehanging of his numerous paintings, and he insists on directing this himself, scrambling up stepladders with hammer and hooks in hand to fix the settings, while servants hold the heavy frames and family members hold their breaths, worrying about a fall...