Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TOBACCO-DRUG MERGER is expected for R. J. Reynolds (sales: $1.05 billion from Camel, Winston, Salem, etc.) and Warner-Lambert (sales: $158 million from Listerine, Bromo Seltzer, Richard Hudnut, ethical drugs, etc.). Reynolds, which would survive in stock swap, would get new line of consumer goods and big foreign distribution system...
...display, with production lagging a month behind 60,000 new orders. It was the fastest start ever for Buick. Cadillac also reported much higher sales and orders than a year ago. Pontiac hopes to boost its 5% share of the market by offering the widest wheelbase in the G.M. line and probably in the whole industry. This means Pontiac '59s will be roomier inside, easier to control than the '58s, hold the road better. Pontiac broadened its wheelbase by 5 in. to 64 in. v. Ford's 59 in., Plymouth's 60.9 in., Imperial...
...Classic Simplicity." Ford teed off by blasting its competitors' "bombastic" styling, showed the press a line of short-finned, chrome-light Fords that offer "classic simplicity" and economy.* There will be greater difference in styling and price among the '593 than in many a year. Ford Division Boss James 0. Wright said the new Fords "series by series will be cheaper than Chevrolet or Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected...
Most businessmen believe that the best and quickest way to cure the glut in many commodities is not a governmental plan but voluntary agreements to trim output and bring supply in line with demand. The copper industry has shown how producers can solve many of their own problems. Copper producers voluntarily cut back production in the face of a big supply and falling prices. The market stabilized itself without any artificial controls, and last week copper prices were moving...
...demand for steel, start dumping cut-rate steel abroad, upset world markets as they did this year in aluminum and tin. Glossbrenner said that the U.S. can get competitive only by spurring workers' productivity. One way to do it, he advised, is for "strong" managers to hold the line on wages until workers become more productive, and to create "an overall attitude of discipline in the mills that strengthens the right of management to make and carry out management decisions...