Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special speaker. In Los Angeles a cab driver announced happily that, "Everybody's tipping big today, even women." The highways were lined with the most spectacular parade of new cars in history, from Ford Crestliners in magenta and ivory to Cadillac Eldorados in "goddess gold" and Wedgwood green...
...harried staffers estimate that when he is in good form, the governor makes more than 30 speeches a month; during active campaigns, his monthly par rises to a breathless 250 orations. In the 19 months since October 1953, when he first sat down in the governor's green leather chair, Knight has traveled 95,000 miles around the state and delivered himself of 1,500-speeches. Goodie can think of only three towns in all of California where he has not stumped at one time or another...
...same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S. Memorial Day will have come back to the Midwest with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory...
Between Checks. A successful free lancer usually submits at least four or five article ideas for every one a magazine takes. He rarely begins to work on an article until he gets a green light from an editor. If the article is turned down, expense money may be all the free-lancer gets unless the magazine decides, or has agreed in advance, to pay him a "minimum guarantee." Success comes hard, but it comes steadily to those who stick...
COFFEE PRICES are due for another drop. In the face of a huge coffee surplus (3,100,000 bags in Brazil alone), Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil and other coffee countries are having trouble agreeing on international price controls. Reports of a price war caused green coffee on the New York exchange to slide from 58? to 53? per lb. Maxwell House slashed its retail prices first (from 95? to 90?; other roasters are expected to follow suit...