Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which topped 600 before sliding back at week's end. Behind the market advance was a growing realization by investors that 1959 will be a far better year than most had expected. The boom is already being reflected...
...firms; nor had they any intention of granting wage boosts, "the primary cause" of inflation. But not all steelmen were so sure that the industry could not freeze prices. Chairman Joseph Block of Inland Steel, one of the twelve companies negotiating, said that if the union held the line on wages, "that would enable us to hold the line on steel prices...
Esprit de Cortège. In Memphis, anxious to save time, Motorist Tom Kimbrough switched on his lights, joined a funeral procession, rolled steadily through red lights, eventually tried to turn into a side street, heard the voice of the law behind him ("Hey, buddy. Back in line. You joined the procession. Now stay in it"), ended up in the cemetery, where the cop made him stay for the services...
Pete Kelly's Blues (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The music, in this series about a cornet player forever running head on into underworld bricks, is authentically blue, but the story line is too often merely mauve...
Over a thousand people, by far the largest crowd of the season, watched the two clubs struggle to a scoreless tie in the first half. The Crimson suffered a harsh disappointment when wing forward Dave Kiely dribbled the ball over the Indians' goal line only to be tackled before he could touch it down...