Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temper of the public as a whole is not that of a nation sliding into another depression." One-fourth of the families interviewed said they were "better off" than a year ago, one-half felt they were "about the same," and only one-fourth considered themselves "worse...
Even the most dedicated French parliamentarians are beginning to question how long the Fourth Republic's weak parliamentary system-of ineffectual Premiers and squabbling Assembly-can or should last. The latest critic: Robert Schuman, himself head of two of France's 24 postwar governments, and now newly elected president of the European Parliamentary Assembly. In the course of a speech on European integration given at the University of Virginia, Schuman injected a "marginal and probably incautious remark." Said...
Inside Out. Back in Manhattan in January 1957 with 30 crammed 3-in.-by-5-in. notebooks and a mountain of loose notes, he immediately went to work in the yellow-walled, fourth-floor office of his 80-year-old brownstone on East 62nd Street, catercorner from Eleanor Roosevelt's apartment. (Says Gunther: "Mrs. Roosevelt's lights and mine are the last on the block to go out.") After writing one 14,000-word magazine article on his trip, he dug in for the 14-month task of shrinking Russia...
Other railroads had some equally embarrassing reports for stockholders. The Pennsylvania reported that February produced the line's fourth straight monthly loss, plunging it $11.3 million into the red in the first two months of 1958. Last week the Pennsy turned to a harsh remedy: an "indefinite" 10% pay slash for all employees earning more than $10,000 annually, the first since 1934 except for a brief cut during the 1956 steel strike. Included in the slash, which will still save only about $200,000, is President James Symes, who made $129,808 last year. With carloadings down...
DAIMLER-BENZ, maker of Mercedes autos, has bought controlling interest in Germany's Auto-Union, manufacturer of DKW cars, to form world's fourth biggest auto company, largest outside U.S. Daimler and Union had combined 1957 sales of about $525 million v. $500 million for Volkswagen, which has been fourth in industry...