Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Aug. 5 report on the price of our new pen is causing confusion at the trade level. It is correct that Paper-Mate will market a new low-priced pen, but it will retail at 98? - not 89? as you stated...
...with their husbands and aged 18 to 39 (this age group includes 94% of the nation's child-bearing women). At this rate, noted Survey Sociologist Ronald Freedman, the baby boom will continue: it would take only 2.2 children per couple to maintain the population at its present level...
Bowing to the long-standing demands of the powerful U.S. independent oil producers, President Eisenhower last week told big oil companies to slash crude-oil imports "voluntarily" to a level 10% below their average imports from 1954 to 1956. This would cut current U.S. imports of foreign oil by about 20%. If the companies do not go along with the request-and three other similar pleas since 1955 have only been moderately successful-the Administration threatens mandatory Government controls. Grudgingly, most of the oil importers promised to cut back rather than risk controls. But oilmen will probably suffer less than...
...FARM EXPORTS jumped 35% to record $4.7 billion in fiscal 1957. Government-subsidized cotton exports hit 7,700,000 bales v. 2,200,000 bales in 1956; wheat shipments rose to 535 million bu. from 340 million bu. Agriculture Department expects foreign sales boom to level off in current fiscal year because of bumper cotton, wheat crops abroad, new import controls in some dollar-short countries...
That sample gave promise of being up to the level of early-vintage Waugh. For all its high curiosity value, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is hardly that. It may even remind some readers of the story of the man who complained to his doctor not so much because he had the habit of talking to himself, but that he was such a damned bore. Fortunately, Pinfold's voices were scripted by a novelist who may be many things, but never a bore...