Word: mums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, producers have been as chary as retailers of cutting prices. What cutting they have done has usually been in the form of special discounts or temporary reductions. On the other hand, some industries that a few months ago talked loudly about raising prices have suddenly turned mum. The aluminum makers, who once discussed a boost as of Aug. i, when they must automatically raise wages, last week said they had not made up their minds what to do. At week's end, steelmakers still could not decide about their prices. One small steel firm knew what...
...Steel, which has kept mum about whether it will raise prices to meet automatic July 1 wage hikes (estimated to cost steel firms 20? an hour), last week gave a hint of its intentions. Said Big Steel President Clifford F. Hood: "While costs are a major factor in any price determination, any adjustment of sales prices can only be made in the light of all known commercial and economic factors. The only point we have reached to date is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation clarifies itself...
CUBA Stuck in the Mud For five days last week the Cuban government kept officially mum while high-ranking members of the regime leaked to the press that 11,000 army troops, with artillery, mortars and bombing planes, were in an all-out drive to flush Fidel Castro from his mountain fastness in the Sierra Maestra. "This is the real thing," they said...
...temporary retirement was well-traveled Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and the South Pole, who withdrew from a proposed lecture tour in Britain, as he put it, "to stay home with Mum and the kids"-for a year-in New Zealand. In the Hillary future: physiological endurance tests in his old freezing grounds, the Himalayas, possibly another Antarctic expedition...
...starts innocently enough with five little English brothers and sisters, ranging from a few years to 16, going to France with their mother for a summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich...