Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racketeer is about a Neapolitan mountebank (Toto) who lives a dog's life at the heels of un guappo (Pasquale Cennamo)-a big vegetable in the Neapolitan underworld. When the hood has a heart attack...
Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...
...optimistic. Cranking up to help supply Western Europe's oil shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); the U.S. oil industry was producing at the highest level in history, and the steel industry was straining hard to keep up with demand (see below). In Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood and Steelworkers Union Chief David J. McDonald formally opened a new office building at the Homestead plant, constructed out of a new kind of cost-cutting, space-saving stainless steel. Said Big Steel's President Hood: "This is the first true stainless-steel curtain-wall office building ever built...
...Pontiac, which planned only a minor face-lift for 1957, rushed through a major styling change to keep pace with competitors. The familiar "silver streak" hood stripes have been dropped in favor of an uncluttered hood; both grille and tailfins are new; the body is 3½ in. lower and packs a larger engine with a 43-h.p. boost to 270 h.p. in the bigger V-8 engine...
Meanwhile, back in the plane, everyone has forgotten about the pretty stewardess from Panama who was doing a good job until she fell out of the plane during the storm. And there is the skeptical Las Vegas hood who, unlike the audience, knows for certain there is no chance of getting out of the jungle...