Word: keys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...key players were injured in last week's game with Penn. Coach Olivar said that their injuries were not responding to treatment in time. Pyle, a very promising sophomore who may go up for all-Ivy honors this year, is being treated for a shoulder injury...
Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is paralyzed (loss per day: about $120,000 of Cyprus' gross daily income of $290,000). Factories are closed for lack of labor and materials. But no sooner does the curfew lift than terrorists kill another victim...
...gadget-the simplest of them all in Western eyes-has already made its mark. "One of the first things I did, before we built a single apartment house," says Kano, "was to order thousands of Yale-type keys. The result has been staggering. Getting keys to their own front doors has done more to Westernize many Japanese than any other single factor." Kano's tenants agree. "Formerly," said one last week, "either my wife or myself or one of the children simply had to stay home when the rest were out: Japanese houses are quite open and there...
Underscoring the strength of the nation's business recovery last week was a Department of Commerce report on manufacturers' new orders, the key to future industrial output. Orders rose more than seasonally in September, and for the first time exceeded a comparable 1957 month. Manufacturers' sales, especially durables, were still slowed down by new model changes and by cautious buying for inventories by distributors and retailers. But with retail sales on the rise, merchants expected the gap between increased manufacturers' new orders and sales to be only temporary (see chart). Other recovery items...
...price because: "the comparison would not have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising in its newspaper or house displays; instead, it insists on such low-key language as "on sale" or "specially priced." Downtown stores in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis have agreed to stop advertising comparative prices on mattresses...