Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their park benches in the sunny harbor on Florida's Gulf Coast, residents of St. Petersburg watched for a sign of fall. One day last week it came: the obituary space in the St. Petersburg Times (circ. 100,225) rose from the summer normal of two columns to five...
...orders were down 17.3% to an estimated $52.4 million as manufacturers held off ordering machines until they were sure of having the steel to feed them. Sales of manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers dropped $2.2 billion in August to a rate of $59.5 billion. Freight carloadings were only 74% of normal for this time of year. Assessing the situation, the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported that "the steel strike has lasted too long to enable us to avoid serious dislocations in production. Prospects for good business in the immediate months ahead are tied directly to an adequate and steady supply...
High Pressure. Meteorologists have a more prosaic explanation. There have been almost twice as many hours of sunshine this year in France as in normal years, apparently because of a high-pressure area in the Canary Islands that pushed the normal summer storms southward. Thus the northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content...
First pressings show the grapes to have a potential 14% alcohol content (1% to 2½% higher than normal) and low acidity. At the same time, the full ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes...
When busy Housewife Shirley Jackson finds time for a new novel, she instinctively begins to id-lib. Her favorite fictional creation is the normal-looking girl who lives in a private nightmare of someone else's making. This heroine is usually close enough to sanity to be alarmed by her own fantasies, near enough to a strait-jacket to invite immediate psychoanalysis. The familiar formula, which worked almost magically well in Hangsaman (TIME, April 23, 1951). but began to look a bit seedy in The Bird's Nest (TIME, June 21, 1954), still carries...