Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a rival camp, Chevrolet's Boss Edward N. Cole showed off his compact, rear-engine Corvair. Compared with Ford's Falcon, the Corvair is shorter (wheelbase: 108 in. v. Falcon's 109½ in.), lower (4 ft. 3 in. v. 4 ft. 6½ in.) narrower...
Vickers, whose turboprop Viscount was the great postwar success story of British civil aviation, has sold more than 400 of them. But it expects to end the Viscount run in 1960. The Viscount's successor, the Vanguard, which was first shown off last week, has a bare 40 orders...
The aircraft industry is under fire from all sides. British editorialists charge that companies are too conservative to press far-out research, too slow to push mergers that would give them greater resources to develop new products. The unions are also up in arms. Last week the British Association of...
Economists worry that businessmen tend to "bunch up" their investments, overspend for capital goods and inventories in good times. "The up-and-down cycle exists simply because businessmen do not believe it exists," says a top Washington economist. "They base capital-spending decisions on a straight-line projection. Because business...
Tight money is already doing it. "Now it will be impossible for business to accumulate excessive inventories." says Vice President Loren M. Whittington of Cleveland's Society National Bank. "Business has to get money for inventory and capital spending by borrowing. But banks are pretty well loaned up." Inventory...