Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging...
The high economy bounced along on other fronts, with only a few bumps to slow its headlong pace: ¶ Employment in the U.S. in November reached 65,640,000, a record for the month, despite a decline of 1,191,000 in the number of jobs from October and a...
¶ Steelmakers plan to operate at about 95% of capacity this week, and output should top the industry's alltime record reached last April. Imports of steel also eased slightly in October, but stayed at a high level of 362,000 tons for the month. ¶ Freight carloadings rose...
Every year-end since 1954, Chicago's First National Bank has invited top businessmen to peer into the coming year. Among predictions for 1960 last week:
Automobiles. Detroit is upping its estimate that 6,500,000 to 7,000,000 cars will be sold in 1960, including half a million imports, said W. C. Newberg, executive vice president of Chrysler Corp. No one is now thinking of a range much below 7,000,000 units. Reason...