Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen continued to liquidate inventories for more than a year, in 1953-54 for 15 months, before any sizeable upturn took place. This time the rate of inventory liquidation seems to be bottoming out after two quarters, though no one is willing to predict any heavy accumulation in the near future. Business outlays for new plant and equipment are a more worrisome problem. The 1958 slide in expansion expenditures has already gone on for three quarters and may continue for possibly another year, thus holding the general economy down...
Died. Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
...longtime expatriate, Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) has not lived permanently in England since 1929. Captured by the Nazis in 1940 in his villa in Le Touquet near Boulogne, Wodehouse was soon released from prison camp, sat out the war in comfortable hotels in Berlin and Paris, made several broadcasts over the Nazi radio that created a storm of criticism in Britain. Though later cleared (dithered Wodehouse later: "A terrible mistake. [I intended them] in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home"), Wodehouse chose not to return to Britain, came...
Even as a schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year-old, swan-necked beauty who is moving through her first season of heady triumphs on the stage...