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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Motors' George Romney announced that his company set a sales record of 351,317 Ramblers in its 1959-model fiscal year, a gain of 128% over last year. He predicted that for calendar 1960 total sales of compact and small cars will amount to 2,250,000 units, of which about 1,750,000 will be U.S.-built compact cars...
MOONSHINE WHISKY sales last year rose to record $1 billion, and 55,000,000 gal. moonshine production accounted for between 20% and 25% of all liquor consumed in U.S. Government's losses: $750 million...
Furthermore, the 5% bonds loosened the pressure on the short-term market. The discount rate on the three-month bills offering dropped noticeably (4.194% to 4.007%) before a new issue at week's end was offered at a record high 4.262%. Treasury officials, however, called the jump temporary, expect that the rate will decline again this week...
...retail industry with the suddenness of his transformation. As he spread his wings, he junked all of Avery's policies, started Ward's on one of the biggest expansion programs in U.S. industry. For the last year, the company has been opening new department stores at a record rate. In the last month alone Barr has overseen the opening of new stores in Richmond and Oakland, Calif., and the company's largest store in Detroit's suburban Livonia shopping center; he plans to open stores in Abilene and Tyler, Texas within the next months. Ward...
...published in English. Previous U.S. editions were either abridged or sold by subscription; the present edition, the first in decades, seems to be the most nearly complete yet available. On the whole, it makes rewarding reading. There is no getting away from the fact that Memoirs is chiefly a record of night errantry, of seductions conducted on a scale that will amaze today's grey-flannel philanderer. But the language is witty and infinitely less crude than that of almost any contemporary bestseller. And Casanova's powers of observation make his autobiography read like a fascinating picaresque novel...