Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East. Britian's Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, signed a five-year trade agreement in Moscow. Britain's purchases from the Soviet Union (chiefly timber, grain, furs) should now rise by a third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants...
...above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise is so far not as great as after other postwar recessions...
...biggest say over what wages the steel industry will-or will not-pay in its new steel contract is Roger Miles Blough (rhymes with now), 55, the tough-minded chairman of U.S. Steel. Blough, who sternly calls for "renewal of the present contract with no rise in wage rates for one year," has the sinewy build (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) and face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician...
...businessmen met, the latest statistics from Washington underscored their forecasts. Gross national product was rising even faster than the preliminary estimates, reached an annual rate of $467 billion for the first quarter of 1959. More important, the gain was real: with hardly any price rise to speak of since last year, the new G.N.P. showed an 8% jump in constant dollars from the recession...
...stage. Gypsy is inspired by Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography, but Ecdysiast Lee remembered Mama with the same refined, opera-length-glove finesse that she brought to her stripping. Mama played by Merman is forbiddingly, tiresomely brassy, a kind of Orpheum-circuit Medea. At curtain's rise, Mama Rose has already devoured three unshowbusinesslike husbands and is panting to staff the vaudeville stages of the early 1920s with child labor, notably her little daughters June (Actress June Havoc in later life) and Louise (Gypsy). What follows is a kind of Dante's tour of the tank-town...