Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Changing pace, the Sahara in Las Vegas was offering a "family show" (no nudes; Dan Dailey), and the first family of onetime Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio turned up for the occasion. Look-alike...
...postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant and equipment will hit an annual clip of $35.4 billion in the fourth quarter (against a 1957 peak rate of $38 billion and a 1958 slump low of $30 billion); many crystal-bailers see a pace close to $40 billion in 1960. "Here's what will happen next," says Vice President Russell H. Metzner of Cleveland's Central National Bank. "The cost of living will rise. Hard goods will be immediately affected because a bigger share of consumer spending will go to the cost...
...Marblehead, Mass.) and using ability grouping by subject. In Torranee, Calif., fourth, fifth and sixth graders are being lumped together in a "multigrade" school so that children of different ages can stimulate each other. In East Alton, III., small groups of six to ten move at their own pace; children who reach seventh grade ahead of time take "enrichment" courses.¶The junior high school, a stepchild institution, will get a year-long survey by Conant. His goal: strengthening the link between fermenting elementary schools and high schools. Junior high schools began originally as a euphemistic device for those...
...tight-money squeeze sent business borrowing costs to their highest level since 1931. Banks all over the nation raised their prime rate to 5% after the pace-setting First National City Bank of New York boosted its prime rate from 4½% to 5%. Since the 5% applies only to top risks, the increase means that smaller businesses will probably have to pay 5%½ or more...
...flickered through the book business. How long could Harper keep Grey alive? The explanation, say Harper editors, is really quite simple. Their man was so prolific-writing longhand on a lap board at the rate of 100,000 words a month-that no publisher could have hoped to keep pace. Grey's attic yielded so many leftover manuscripts that Harper's will be able to maintain its practice of putting out an annual Zane Grey novel "for the next several years...