Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard-hit northern tier states. Rain fell so hard in Bombay that five people drowned in a single day in the flooded streets...
...lyrics are from a jukebox hit called Witch Doctor, by Ross (Come on-a My House) Bagdasarian, and in the pop industry, which apes itself with witless intensity, they have contributed to a recent style in novelty numbers: the use of speeded-up or doctored tape to achieve nonsensical vocal effects. The Little Blue Man climbed the charts briefly because it had a whiningly metallic voice whispering "I wuv you" at periodic intervals; a new record called What'd He Say? consists of a series of bewildered questioners trying to ungarble answers that invariably degenerate into taped gobbledygook just...
Publisher William M. Gaines, a hearty, hefty man of 250 Ibs., launched Mad in 1952 as a sideline to the comic-book business he inherited from his father, M. (for Max) C. Gaines, who started the whole industry in the early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price...
After bobbing around in the low $20 millions all winter, new domestic orders for metal-cutting and shaping tools briefly hit $29.8 million in March (caused by bunching up three large orders that normally would have been spread over a quarter), dropped to $20.8 million again in April, in May jumped to $23.7 million. To economists, who scan toolmakers' order books for a tip-off to future spending plans of a wide range of manufacturers, even such slight changes are encouraging...
...future money policy. Last week the direction was still toward easy money. The Federal Reserve's open market committee continued its buying of Government bonds, thus helping stabilize the market. Moreover, it announced that for the week ending June 25, average free reserves of member banks hit $611 million and the highest level in 3½ years. To Wall Street it meant that there would still be plenty of money around for investment once the market settled down...