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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alison's century," as one of the characters helpfully points out. The Stanhope family is leaving its old home on the banks of the Mississippi for a new one in the city. A reporter from Chicago comes down to see the room in which Alison worked, and off we go. Old Aunt Agatha, Alison's constant companion, now grown senile, tries unsuccessfully to burn down the house. Elsa Stanhope who, years before, ran off with a married man, returns to spend one final night in the house. Aunt Agatha dies in Elsa's arms, first giving her a packet containing...
Virtue would not go nearly so far if vanity did not keep her company...
Still other industrial groups blew hot and cold in the first half. Among elec tricals, General Electric rose only 1⅞to 80¾ but resurgent Westinghouse climbed 21⅜ to 94½. Among motors, an investor could hardly go wrong (Chrysler up 17⅛, Ford up 24¼)-unless he selected solid General Motors, up only...
...averages. As consumers opened their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed 1958's 4.8 million by almost a million, as individual manufacturers' six-month sales gains ranged as high as 30% for Emerson. 50% for Sylvania...
...engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight to the mark...