Word: preholiday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most record companies fill their preholiday releases with seasonal sounds: Christmas carols, a Handel oratorio or two. This fall the sounds from Columbia seem to be designed for Christmas 2067. In one batch last month, on its three constituent labels, the company issued as its entire "classical" release no fewer than 17 recordings of contemporary music, most of it on the farthest fringes...
...preholiday week went on, the mood swung between exhilaration and gloom. Having threatened to torpedo the Common Market, Charles de Gaulle kept up the pressure by telling a visitor: "After all, we could always be a large Switzerland"-a reference to the separate path that France could take. But the spur of a deadline and the ministers' eagerness to get home in time for a peaceful Christmas produced some compromises in Brussels...
...reason for all this preholiday cheer was a set of figures that could conservatively be described as phenomenal. The company's net income for July, August and September was 97% higher -let's have that one again-97% higher-than it was for the same period last year. It took in about $4,500,000 in the summer of 1962 and more than $9,000,000 this year. And for 1963 as a whole, CBS has already earned more than $28 million on sales of $395 million. At this time last year, it was just riching alone with...
With visions of sugar plums, Canadians eagerly awaited Finance Minister Donald Fleming's appearance before Parliament to present the government's antirecession midterm budget. EXPECT FLEMING TO CUT TAXES, the Toronto Globe and Mail headlined. PREHOLIDAY BABY BUDGET BEARS GIFTS, predicted the Ottawa Citizen. One night last week Donald Fleming stood before Commons, and in his firm baritone voice spoke for 96 minutes. The news was mostly bad. The nation will end fiscal 1960 about $300 million in the red-bringing the Diefenbaker government's deficit to $1.3 billion in 3½ years. Instead of the predicted...