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...lower rate than usual during the summer, may shut down earlier, stay closed longer when it retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter burst of production prosperity that may rival...
...have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...
...little solid for biographers to fall back on. Those who knew him have called him "a Johnson who cried for a Boswell." Yet the anecdotes which do exist tend to distort the man, illuminating in thin shafts of light one side of his personality, leaving the rest in gloom...
...McClellan committee, Reuther found a capacity crowd on hand for the fireworks. But any public-relations man could recognize that the time was wrong for fireworks. In Detroit tough negotiations between the U.A.W. and the big three auto companies were under way in a climate of depression and gloom, with few rank and filers in a mood to strike for Reuthers pet profit-sharing plan (see BUSINESS). At the hearing table, Reuther kept his temper, thereby took the teeth out of traps carefully...
...industries there were signs that recovery might have begun. After the gloom of January and early February, Detroit's automen reported a sharp, continuing sales rise in March, with sales of some cars up as much as 25%. Oilmen, too, thought they might be bottoming out of recession, had cut production drastically to reduce inventories, while many independents clamored for further import cuts (see Oil). Texas cut its April allowable another 120,203 bbl. and scheduled only eight days' production (2,444,571 bbl. daily) for the entire month, the lowest level in history. Although gasoline stocks topped...