Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retail merchants are finding the strike's impact uneven. Jewelry stores are empty. "Business is as bad as it was in 1932," says Jeweler Harold Klivans. But hardware stores have thrived selling paint and other do-it-yourself items to strikers; many a steelworker has taken advantage of the strike to paint the woodwork and put up long-postponed shelves. Stores that grant credit freely have fared much better than those with no credit plans. "We're hurting and hurting bad," says Assistant Manager Robert Engler of a cash-only dime store on downtown Federal Street. But Bertram...
...next year. The Department also expects to raise another $2 billion or $3 billion before January, but does not know at what rate. Some moneymen think that the end of the steel strike will see a big demand and further squeeze on the money market; others argue that the impact of the post-strike demand has already been discounted. In any case the new bonds show that, given favorable interest rates, there is still plenty of money around...
...Americans, spent the past academic year at Moscow University. He and his wife lived in the 30-story skyscraper dormitory that forms the heart of the university. Azrael studied Russian newspaper files and was permitted to interview a few Soviet industrial managers for a Harvard doctoral dissertation on the impact of industrialization under the first two Five Year Plans. Mrs. Azrael studied the Russian language and taught English privately to a Moscow schoolboy...
...Crater. The Russians themselves do not claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually...
...Colbert predicted that U.S. compact-car sales in 1960 will total 1,250,000 units, noted that by early 1960 the Valiant will have an annual production capacity of about 300,000 cars. Said Colbert: "We are ready with the right car for a big new market. The impact of this new automotive development may be so great that the volume of sales of economy cars will be determined in large part by the manufacturing capacity of the major companies...