Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...
Hussey maintained an open-water lead over the remaining three entrants, who rowed and finished within a deck length of each other, providing the only traces of competition in the event...
...Homebuilding may be the industry which will lead us out of the recession," said Nels Severin, president of the National Association of Home Builders, last week...
Economists are keeping their fingers crossed about housing and its capacity to lead the'economy into an upturn. In the 1949 and 1954 recessions, housing upturns were bellwethers for the economy. But some economists suspect that housing may no longer be a completely reliable economic indicator. Reason: like many another industry, housing has had the cream skimmed off the top of its market, cannot depend on the backed-up demand that helped it weather the last two recessions...
Chile's copper exports will be off some $225 million this year, pushing the country into an overall $95 million trade deficit. Bolivia, which gets about 80% of its export money from tungsten, lead, tin and zinc, whose prices are off as much as 30%, is in the same economic fix. So are such metal-producing African exporters as Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, whose exports of nonferrous metals were hit by a 9% price decline in the first quarter of 1958 alone...