Word: may
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With production high and unemployment low (4% of the work force), the forecasters see good business ahead. Tight credit may cause the housing industry to slip slightly to a rate of 1,200,000 homes. But Detroit's automakers have visions of a 7,000,000-car year in 1960, with 18%-20% of the market in the compacts. Steelmen forecast a total of 125 million tons of steel next year, up nearly 35 million tons. Borg-Warner's Norge Division President Judson Sayre expects big increases in the appliance industry-8% for clothes dryers, 10% for refrigerators...
...there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo medicine and pseudo science deserved. Probably least surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish it-no trick, since Murchison controls Henry Holt...
...collection of aphorisms, the reader learns that "in life's ledger, there is no such thing as frozen assets." If the sage of Big Sur were to be judged from this book alone, it would be hard to justify Editor Durrell's prophecy that Miller may one day be classed with Whitman and Blake...
...wood for the fire," the father improvises shakily. "He had nothing on but his bearskin, and the flies were driving him mad ..." The son objects contemptuously: "I don't like the way he tells it, he's all mixed up." Determinedly, the father plows on. The reader may reflect that for a Henry Miller heroine, Goldilocks gets off easily. She is eaten by the three bears...
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