Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller began their career as amateur songwriters at Los Angeles City College, earned less than $2,000 apiece their first two years. Then, in 1952, they whelped Hound Dog in 20 minutes flat. "Originally, it was folk blues," says Leiber. "When Presley, shall we say, performed it, there was a misunderstanding of the original lyrics-it was designed to be sung by a girl." Adds Leiber: "The thing to remember is you're not writing a song but a record. What you gotta do is get these kids to identify. That...
...poses no threat to steel's position as one of the best-paying big businesses. Steelworker gross earnings averaged $2.88 an hour last year, 35? better than autoworkers and 75? better than the average for all manufacturing; among production workers only bituminous coal miners ($3.02 an hour) and flat-glass workers ($2.91) averaged more...
Better Carder. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed the first major improvement in cotton-carding equipment in 60 years. Offered on a royalty-free licensing basis to the cotton industry, the new 300-lb. rotary carder replaces one bulky 1,100-lb. carding flat, which now wastes 3% of cotton fibers. With virtually no waste, the new carder promises to save $40 million a year, or put another way, add 135 million lbs. of cotton annually to the mounting cotton surpluses...
...Fall Flat? For all his confidence, Romney does not underestimate the threat he faces-or expect anyone to underestimate him. "We don't have research and development facilities in magnitude equal to the Big Three," he says. "But we have greater freedom and flexibility of operation. We're leaner. We're harder. We're faster. I've seen halfbacks, out in the clear, trip and fall flat with a sure touchdown in sight. That sort of thing could happen to anybody." Then Romney breaks into a wide grin: "But I don't intend...
...will become of American Motors? Some Big Three officials who wrote off the compact and small foreign cars only two years ago now have their own pat answer. Says one high-ranking automan: "Give the Big Three a year or so in the economy market, and Romney will be flat against the wall." But such crapehangers underestimate Romney's passion and skill in battling against odds...