Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan hospital, an operation on the infected third finger of his right hand a success. Barred from the keyboard for at least two months, tireless Van, who has pounded away at some 90 concerts since his return from Russia last May, seemed almost resigned to trying a slower pace: "My doctor is trying to make me realize I must be more selfish, conserve my energy. If I don't, I won't be able to give anything to anybody...
Summer after summer it was the same. As soon as the tall Herr Professor arrived at the Baltic seaside for his vacation, he began to pace the beach methodically, studying the terrain. Then, in coveralls, armed with an enormous shovel, he started to dig. Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from...
Aside from Buick's decline and Pontiac's surge (Plymouth's drop was largely strike caused), the big car surprise of 1959 is the fast pace of the skillfully restyled Ford against the flashy new Chevy. With a strike at G.M. to give it an initial lead, Ford took off running, has sold something like 500,000 cars for the model year so far, and still leads by 30,000 units. Chevy is creeping up, but it will have to do better than February's slim margin to hold its 1958 title of No. 1 seller...
...stocks climbed $300 million to $49.5 billion on a seasonally adjusted basis. The backlog of unfilled orders in January totaled $47.6 billion, a gain of $800 million over December. The turn came just about when Government economists expected; they expect that inventories will continue to climb at a moderate pace for the rest of the year...
...noted sales running about 15% ahead of 1958 as consumers loaded up with refrigerators, washing machines, and gas and electric ranges. Much of the buying was for new houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged against possible strikes. The three major copper producers. Anaconda, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, hiked copper 1½? per Ib. to 31½?, highest price in 21 months. And steelmakers set a rate of 89.5% of rated capacity, said shipments were still...