Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such nondurable goods as clothing, food and gasoline still account for two-thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
...Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Jolted by the death of his only son during a prep-school field trip accident, a widower harangues his son's teacher until he finds one of the boy's poems and learns the bitter truth about himself. The Last Autumn stars Pat Hingle and Alexis Smith...
...barony's dissolution began when the New Englanders imported Chinese and Japanese to work as field hands. Neither group stayed in the fields. The industrious Chinese moved into real estate, the Japanese into politics. After World War II, the pineapple workers won their fight for a union, and the Democratic Party, with a membership of Orientals and newcomer Caucasians, won a strong position in island government...
Face the Nation (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will field questions tossed by CBS Correspondent Stuart Novins and a panel of newsmen...