Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripped Shelves. The year of industrial growth began in fear and foreboding. In January, the U.S. still quivered from the shock of the Red Chinese intervention in Korea and the U.N. retreat. Consumers, fearful that war production would wipe out civilian goods, started a great wave of panic buying. Department stores, whose business normally skids after Christmas, found sales skyrocketing-and prices right along with them. To try to stop the rise, Price Boss Mike Di Salle put ceilings on all prices. The effect was to reward the chiselers who had already jacked up their prices and punish those...
...wage demands, made public this week, would boost average earnings by 19? to 20? an hour; if these are trimmed to accord with the WSB formula, the stabilizers might give the nod to Murray's demands for fringe benefits (longer vacations, higher shift premiums) without undignified retreat. Murray is also asking that the steel companies guarantee to each employee with three years' service annual earnings equal to 32 hours a week for 52 weeks...
...modern Friend who speaks in the old tradition is Gilbert Kilpack, 38, writer, lecturer and staff member of the Quaker retreat center, Pendle Hill, at Wallingford, Pa. (TIME, June 21, 1948). Published last week, Kilpack's latest pamphlet, Ninth Hour* (Pendle Hill; 35?),is a voice raised eloquently against the sweetness & light school of Christians. Excerpts...
...even of Boylston Hall and alerted two policemen nearby. Firemen soon arrived with hook and ladder but refrained from using water, which might have caused violent chemical reactions. They sent for a chemical extinguisher. When they tried to enter a top-story window, however, strong fumes forced a retreat. By the time gas masks arrived, an instructor had informed the firemen that it would be safe to use water. Meanwhile the fire had been left to burn merrily for over an hour, and five more trucks arrived to fight the blaze. After a brief bombardment of flying glass from disintegrating...
...active volcano, a many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...