Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the Muzak was silent as conservative Art Editor Alexander Eliot flicked his beard thoughtfully and pronounced: "The lack of horizontal accents on the outside makes for an intensely dramatic but unassuring effect-like an exclamation point." Up in the new quarters, corridors with vinyl floors, offices with deep-pile carpeting suggested the passageways and staterooms of a transatlantic liner...
...above a year ago. Since new orders usually tell what businessmen think is going to happen, this seemed to say that business could not be as good as expected. Adding to the bearish impression was a continued rise in inventories at a higher rate than had been anticipated; manufacturers piled up another $750 million in inventories in January (about the same as December) to bring the total to $53.2 billion, the highest level in more than two years. Many economists feel that if inventories continue to pile up at that rate -cutbacks in production will have to be made, especially...
...just two Americans (and non-Africans) present at Ghana's "emergency demonstration" against TIME'S alleged "imperialist cowboy propaganda" [at which a pile of copies of TIME was burned], may I offer a single additional comment to your Jan. 4 story...
...fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More important, Love has shown his fellow textilemen that high productivity and low prices can whip the industry's age-old feast-or-famine cycle. U.S. textilemen this year expect to pile another 5% sales gain on last year's increase of 12%. Right now, unfilled orders outrun inventories by a healthy 5 to 1; even so, wholesale prices are 8% below the 1947-49 average...
...happens, they make passionate and explicitly French love 1) in her bed, 2) in the bathtub, 3) back in bed again. Whereupon the wife, without a second's hesitation or a backward glance, walks out on her husband, her former lover and her small daughter. The couple simply pile into his car and drive off into the dawn. "But," the narration concludes in tones of soaring triumph, "she regretted nothing...