Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved into a spanking new office (in Tacoma's Puget Sound Bank Building) and therefore had no basis for comparison, he said. Leaving the White House, Edgar said he had not changed his mind about the budget, but added brusquely: "I want to forget the whole thing as fast...
Morgan Wheelock as Colonel of the Dragoon Guards, formerly affianced to the maidens who now long for the path of high art, run through the reams of usual fast-paced lyrics with great gusto and a fine baritone voice. And Thomas Myers is winning as the diffident duke who has joined the service to escape perpetual adulation...
Director Joan Mickelson seemed to have some trouble with the tiny Agassiz stage, and sometimes her routines border on the monotonous, but considering the grave problem of space, the blocking and direction is highly successful. Music Director Arthur Waldstein deserves large credit for the proper fast pace of the show and the amazing articulateness with which the songs are sung. However the overture is unbearably long, pompous, forced, and dull...
...drop since 1952, filters have risen from 1% of the market in 1952 to 30% last year, are heading for 40% in 1957. More than a dozen new filter brands have been put on the market in the past five years, and almost every one has moved up fast in the sales race. Reynolds' Winston, fifth-ranked in 1955, last year took over fourth place from Chesterfield. (Regular and king sizes are classified separately.) Liggett & Myers' L&M climbed from ninth to seventh, and filtered Marlboro, which was launched in 1955, moved to eighth...
...strike closed the Kohler plant for two months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last week that the company is holding fast to its traditional No. 2 spot in the plumbing-ware industry, just behind the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. Admitted one competitor: "Kohler is in on all the jobs. We do not see it losing from the boycott...