Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ward, seeking his sixth consecutive win of the year, has been the mainstay of the Crimson staff all year, and struck out 11 his last time out, when he blanked Dartmouth, 3 to 0, last Wednesday. He leads the Crimson pitching staff with an ERA of 1.09 and with a total f 47 strikeouts...
...fruits of the boom. Once slurred as the city of "100 churches and one bathtub," the capital now boasts new hotels, nightclubs, theaters. Around Quito, however, in the eroded Andean valleys that are overpopulated with 60% illiterate Indians, the economy is still sluggish. The Panama-hat industry, once a mainstay of the mountain Indians, is dying...
...demand for casual clothes has also become a mainstay of the vast and complex fashion business. It is a risky business, yet all over the nation upwards of 14,500 women's-apparel manufacturers are taking the risk. They employ 450,000 people and turn out $6 billion worth of goods a year. Of this total, Claire McCardell (through Townley Frocks, Inc.) accounts for only about $1,800,000 (plus $100,000 in royalties from such sidelines as sunglasses, gloves and jewelry). But she is one of the biggest names in the business...
...space by making dresses in parts, switching the pieces around for variety-a bare top and covered-up top, for example, to be worn alternately with shorts, slacks or short or long skirts. That was one of the fashion world's first important experiments with "separates," now a mainstay of American sportswear design...
Before the rubber boom had run its course, Brazil became the world's No. 1 exporter of coffee. Coffee is still the mainstay of the economy, accounting for two-thirds of export income. "Brazil walks on one leg," said a Vargas Finance Minister, "and the leg is coffee." Dependence on a single product makes Brazil vulnerable to exchange crises every time the price slides. Not only is the one leg wobbly: it might some day wither altogether and go the way of dyewood, sugar, gold and rubber. Competition from the other coffee countries and from cheap-labor plantations...