Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their hands together to keep typing fingers agile. Those who have finished work are queueing for buses and subways; nobody has enough gasoline to drive to and from work. And for most of us, arrival at home means no cozy warmth around the dinner table. The fuel shortage has hit us hard...
CORPORATE DIVIDENDS are running far ahead of last year despite rising costs of business, declining profit margins for many companies. Cash dividend payments in the first ten months this year hit $8.7 billion, up 12½ % from...
...music-hall version of With a Little Bit of Luck, from My Fair Lady. Tipping a pixy toe at his audience, Bolger will also invite a nostalgic following to join him in the happy choruses of Once in Love with Amy, a great vaudeville song from his 1948 Broadway hit, Where's Charley...
...that increasingly tight money might pinch off business expansion. Thus far, the future still looks bright. The Commerce and Labor Departments estimated last week that a record $44.1 billion will go for new construction this year, another record $46.4 billion in 1957. But home building has already been hard hit by the money shortage. Home building is down to an estimated 1.1 million units this year with 1957 estimates lower. To bolster the market, Housing Administrator Albert Cole hopes to get increased lending power for the Federal National Mortgage Association. Furthermore, he plans to urge a hike in Veterans...
...Mountain (Paramount) is a fairly interesting attempt to combine in one picture a hit and a myth. Based on the 1953 novel by France's Henri Troyat, which in turn was suggested by a 1950 plane crash in the Alps, The Mountain tells the story of an adventure that leads its adventurers to the high places of the spiritual as well as of the physical world. The adventure is intended to represent the struggle between Good and Evil, as that struggle is lived out against a symbol that expresses both the way and the goal of life: The Mountain...