Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athletes and coaches will no longer be allowed to cut last-period study halls on game days. Practice sessions will...
...most steel users thought not-for the time being. They apparently intended to see how fast business picked up before they took a chance on raising prices. Said General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner guardedly: "In the face of rising costs bargain prices cannot be expected to continue very much longer...
...long struggle toward efficiency went little noticed during the fat times of the earlier 19503, when almost all producers were pouring and earning close to 100% capacity. But it was during the lean months of 1958 that the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, demonstrated that it is no longer a cyclical industry of feast or famine. Steel can now operate profitably in slump periods when many another industry is forced into...
Marcella Norman went back time and again with the same request. Always the answer was no. Finally, unable to stand it any longer, she phoned the dealer a warning: "If you don't take back that car, I'll drive it back-through your show window...
...Buick, its production of '58s halted at 242,000, v. 400,000 in the '57 model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...