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Word: lesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one major segment of the economy has yet to turn around: car sales. Last week President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert showed off Chrysler Corp.'s new line, predicted that the industry's calendar 1959 sales will rise to 5,500,000 or 6,000,000, well above calendar 1958's estimated 4,600,000. But even optimistic Tex Colbert felt that buyers are not yet as enthusiastic as the industry would like. Said he: "People still show some tendency to wait for further signs of recovery before taking on new obligations." To loosen consumer purse strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Confidence in Cars | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...LESTER DOORNHEIM San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...LESTER W. HANSEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Flea Point Landing. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Lester Grinstead leaped from a, bridge, landed 40 ft. below in one inch of water flowing over the concrete bottom of the Los Angeles River, got up, shook himself, walked off uninjured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1958 | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...Shoemaker as the self-righteous, over-protective mother; Lucy Landau as a frank, portly horserace-enthusiast; Edgar Kent as a quiet ex-schoolmaster; Ralph Purdum as a liberal-minded medical student; Audrey Ridgwell as the coolly over-efficient hotel proprietress with a warm heart; and Adele Thane and Barbara Lester as waitresses. Only Ann Stanwell, as the student's girl, is below...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Separate Tables | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

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