Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mine, and the minute I heard the first two lines spoken, I knew that Shakespeare and O'Neill were safe.'' Playwright Howard Lindsay spoke a pertinent line of Philosopher William James's (M.D., 1869): "The day when Harvard shall stamp a single hard and fast character upon her children will be that of her downfall. Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...
...paradoxical recession, perhaps the biggest paradox of all is the leapfrogging race between prices and wages that has continued long after the general economy paused for a breath. Though price cuts are on the rise (see Metals), they have not been fast or sharp enough to hold down the steady rise in the cost-of-living index. Nor has labor trimmed its wage demands in the face of poor sales and lower profits (see Autos). Last week Chicago Federal Reserve President Carl E. Allen took both management and labor to task for what he called a "price and cost rigidity...
GERMAN FORDS will start rolling into U.S. foreign-car market (now 5% of all sales) next month. Ford will bolster its fast-moving line of English-made cars by bringing in 5,000 sporty "Taunus" models, which get up to 35 miles per gal. Cost: around...
...small a demand. During the Suez crisis, oil producers outside the Middle East expanded by leaps and bounds to supply Europe with oil. When Suez was over, they failed to cut back rapidly enough, were caught with overproduction in the face of markets that did not grow as fast as expected. In Europe, the Middle East's biggest oil market, oil consumption will climb only 4% or 5% this year instead of the forecast 6½%. At home, the U.S. recession will cut the increase in oil consumption to 2%-less than half of what oil companies expected...
MOSES, PRINCE OF EGYPT (303 pp.)-Howard Fast-Crown...