Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YOUR father's a dirty scab!" is the shrill cry often heard these days on the quiet streets of Sheboygan, Wis. The gibe of one child against another is being echoed at the adult level as a U.S. Senate committee probes one of the longest, costliest strikes in U.S. history, the United Auto Workers four-year-old strike against the Kohler Co. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The "Almost Sinful" Strike...
...Soviet long-range missiles. Spain is the only nation in Western Europe now receiving direct grants of economic aid from the U.S. But Franco argues that Spain received no help under the Marshall Plan, is asking for enough additional money to help raise the Spanish economy to the level of the rest of Western Europe...
...suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason to be sensitive to these arguments: while circulation has held steady, U.S. advertising linage slipped 6.4% in January from the 1957 level for that month...
...Level." For Atkinson, Marilyn Monroe arrived on time. Helen Hayes gave the critic a huge silver tray inscribed with the names of all 130 guests, some of whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A critic has a mother, Just like anybody else"). Mary Martin sang I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy with Composer Richard Rodgers at the piano. Oscar Hammerstein II was master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition...
February auto production totaled 393,000 units, the lowest for any February in six years. Production rose slightly last week from its lowest level of the year, but several plants announced layoffs and cutbacks. Not all companies have been equally affected, but a comparison of 1957 and 1958 production between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22 shows a big drop...