Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keeping his eye fixed on all possibilities of turning a fast buck, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
...upturn in business is now a fact and not just an expectation," said FORTUNE this week in its monthly report on the U.S. economy. It is no longer a question of touching bottom-that happened some weeks ago. The question now is how fast the recovery will spread. "Even the incomplete data for the second quarter add up unequivocally to more than a seasonal gain." Not only did defense outlays and public works shoot ahead, but housing, car sales and production of steel, lumber, apparel, aircraft, petroleum were all on the upgrade. The FRB index of production, which rose...
...postponable-until the chair breaks down. Business began to slide early in 1957, several months before the recession started. "We had become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...
...many different styles that the homemakers often do not know what to buy. On the production level, there are some 4,000 different manufacturers, each with styles of his own. On the retail level, complains Executive Vice President Jim Best of the Southern Retail Furniture Association, there are many fast-buck artists who high-pressure consumers into buying furniture that does not suit their taste. Says Best: "The American housewife has lost her confidence in all but a few established furniture dealers. But she is still so confused with the wide choice that she often takes home something that...
...fall, buyers turned to the "relaxed look," a slimmer, trimmer, tighter version of the chemise. One fast comer is the empire style-a bust-emphasizing high waist with a flaring skirt. Fall dresses will be two or three inches shorter than last fall's models, and colors will be gayer and splashier...