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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professing to be unshaken by the surplus corn, ailing (gall bladder) Ezra Benson last week got President Eisenhower's approval for the legislative proposals he will make to Congress early next year. Chief aim: to extend to wheat the same program that failed in corn, abolish acreage controls while lowering price supports from $1.77 to $1.40 per bu. Because the plan links support prices to the average market prices for the preceding three years (abandoning the old parity ratio based on 1910-14 figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson...
...sophomore quarterback Ed Molloy, who gave up Drill's interception soon after replacing injured Yale starter Jim Ryan, grew disheartened, Eli coach Herman Hickman advised, "You pitch them out, kid, and I'll start heading out of town. We've got nothing to lose now--not even a reputation." Molloy then completed four out of five passes for 65 yards and the tying touchdown...
...know them, Revson is a merciless taskmaster. He has axed his way through seven different ad agencies in the past three years, rubbed off dozens of account executives. At one time his executive turnover was so great that people who stayed at Revlon a year, so the story goes, got together and had an oldtimers' lunch...
...savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels in a wide range of colors...
...their first months on the market, the Big Three's compact cars got off to a fast start. Wards Automotive Reports last week announced that compact-car sales for October totaled 86,244 units, or a hefty 16.4% of the overall auto market, compared to 5.6% in October 1958. Of that big new share, Chevrolet's Corvair, Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant carved out a 48.1% slice to challenge American Motors and Studebaker-Packard. In their first month U.S. compact cars outsold imported cars by nearly...