Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commerce Department warned the U.S. to expect several more months of trade imbalance. In 1959 the U.S. will show an export surplus, but just barely. Exports, which dropped from a record $19.5 billion in 1957 to $16.3 billion last year, will slide to an estimated $16 billion. Imports will go up from $12.8 billion to about $15 billion...
...go-getting Japanese, who have crashed the U.S. market with everything from cameras to transistors to hibachi charcoal braziers, last week were briskly redesigning their little cars for a full-scale commercial assault. The cars lead a broader invasion of the U.S. market by all manner of Japanese heavy industrial goods. This year Japanese exports to the U.S. will exceed $800 million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric...
...father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made president of Tidewater in May 1958 and shook up management. "The new broom," he grins, "sweeps clean...
...demand for shots running ahead of estimates, North Carolina was out of vaccine. Rated as distressed areas qualifying for priority on new shipments: Iowa, Kansas. Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Emergency redistribution of supplies is difficult because anybody who has enough vaccine is afraid to let go...
...ashes were "dispersed in the gentle winds of a Florentine May"; the city might have donned sackcloth to go with them, but instead, it quickly reverted to its old ways. Today, a simple plaque marks the place where Savonarola was burned; few tourists ever notice it in the pavement, are drawn instead to a spot only a short distance away, where an array of nude marble statues seem to look ironically down at the inconspicuous marker. Dominicans have made several attempts-the last only five years ago-to have their hero canonized. But sainthood is unlikely, say Vatican spokesmen, because...