Word: letup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, there was slight sign of letup. The union and the company sent one man each to a secret meeting in Philadelphia with Federal Mediator John Murray. The meeting, however, was called less to bargain collectively than to set up rules for further meetings. Said Mediator Murray: "The strike couldn't be settled in anything less than two weeks." While they waited, men in the picket lines heaped up more stones, stirred their chilled feet, and chanted in derisive mockery of Westinghouse's advertising slogan, "You can't be sure...
Despite the leveling off, U.S. businessmen will keep building for future markets without letup. Merely to keep pace, industry will lay out a record sum for new plants and equipment in 1956. The forecast: $33 billion, $5 billion more than in 1955. Example: the Southern Co., which controls utility companies in four Southeastern states, will pour $220 million into 88 new power projects...
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, outsold every other book of the year by a good margin, and at the 400,000 mark there was still no sign of a letup. The multiplicity and fragmentation of modern daily life were too much for Author Lindbergh, and her well-written cry of "Enough, enough!" obviously found a vast chorus of agreement...
Since the war, one of the greatest building booms in history has changed the face of Latin America, and no letup is in sight. To house a population that is growing at double the world rate, the countries south of the border have built thousands of large-scale apartment projects, office buildings, stadiums, university halls and government buildings. In the major cities, new, skyscrapered skylines rise amidst one-and two-century-old slum clusters and rows of two-story stores. To portray a decade of tumultuous growth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is currently displaying a photographic exhibit (assembled...
Despite the credit brakes, a new construction record is already in prospect for 1955. F. W. Dodge's midyear construction review reported a 30% increase in all classes of building contracts to a total of nearly $12 billion during the first six months, with no sign of a letup in sight...