Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Installment buying is one of the major causes of the phenomenon, along with the changing habits of U.S. consumers. They no longer hold on to suits, coats and dresses as if they were heirlooms; determined promotion campaigns keep apparel one of the hottest selling items. Furniture, refrigerators, rugs-all once bought to last for years or life-are now replaced with register-tingling regularity...
...strike caused no shortage in other areas where the consumer likes to pour out his cash. September output of major appliances was up 30% over last year, radio-television output up 28%, production of textiles and clothing up 14%. With steelworkers back at their jobs and laid-off auto workers gradually going back, merchants are already looking forward to record Christmas buying...
...classes were cars from the U.S., Britain, France. Germany and Sweden. The entries that held all eyes were the new Chevrolet Corvairs and Ford Falcons, both competing in the same class (2,001 to 2,500 cc.) and each with top drivers and pit crews. Chevy made it a major effort, with five cars and a 25-man pit crew sponsored by the Denver Chevrolet Dealers Association. Not to be outdone, Denver Ford dealers entered three cars, with 15 experts on tap for split-second refueling and tire changes...
...unions' most paradoxical argument is that changes in the present rules would actually cost the railroads more than they claim they could save. Railroad workers, whose wages average $2.47 an hour, are paid less than workers in many major U.S. industries. If roads paid overtime, differentials for nightwork. severance pay and other benefits, say the unions, it would cost them $648 million more a year...
...boomlay-booming Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. Yet 15 years earlier, few had doubted that he was a genius. Author Eleanor Ruggles (Prince of Players: Edwin Booth) avoids outright judgment, but the sum of her sympathetic, somewhat sentimental biography seems correct: Lindsay was less than a major poet, but considerably more than a quaint Illinois versifier...