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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative government of cigar-smoking Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal party. With 263 seats of his own, and the support of 70 almost equally conservative members of the Democratic party, Yoshida would have for the next four years an overwhelming majority of the Diet's lower house of 466 members...
...facile workman, he is cheerfully accommodating when he has to turn out a new number overnight because an old one has been dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
CHEVROLET had been radically changed in a big bid to stay out front in the lowest-price field. Lower and bigger, the Chevvy has larger windows, curving windshield, and new front-axle springing to make riding and steering easier. Also, for better riding, the rear seat has been moved ahead of the axle; for better visibility, the defroster keeps the entire windshield clear. Seats are wider, 60 inches in front and 58⅜ inches in the rear. Both the Fleetline (with the torpedo back) and the Styleline (with the square "bustle back") have Chevvy's 90 h.p. valve...
...hood of the "Futuramic 98" Series: the V-8 "Rocket" engine, with a 7.25-to-1 compression ratio.* This gives it 135 h.p. while using less gas than the old 115-h.p. motor. It can be stepped up to a 12-to-1 ratio-with increased horsepower and lower gas consumption-whenever the higher octane fuel it requires is available at gas stations...
Within two hours after the suit was filed, A.T. & T. stock, long regarded as the Gibraltar of the securities world, dropped 1½ points on the New York Stock Exchange to 147¾, a new low for 1948-49, fell still lower next day to the lowest point in five years. A.T. & T.'s President Leroy A. Wilson seemed less shaken. Said he: "Western Electric has been a part of the Bell System for over 65 years ... I am sure that when all the facts are known, the existing arrangement will be found to be in the public interest...