Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From ⅓-ton window units for single rooms to the 2,000-ton monsters that keep big-city skyscrapers habitable, every size and shape of mechanical conditioner will roll out in record quantities this year. The top-heavy inventories of window units that plagued the industry for the past two years have been cleared out, and manufacturers expect retail sales of all types to be $3.2 billion in 1956, up a cool 10% from last year's record $2.9 billion (see chart...
...first vote, against a Republican leadership motion to send the bill back to conference for revision, was 238 (211 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 181 (167 Republicans, 14 Democrats). At midpoint in the roll call the outcome was clear; Louisiana Democrat Allen Ellender. chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, strode onto the floor to thump the back of his House opposite number, North Carolina's Harold Cooley. Actual passage of the bill, 237-181, was anticlimactic. Within six hours the Senate rolled it through. 50 (35 Democrats. 15 Republicans) to 35 (31 Republicans, four Democrats), and sent...
...TAPE will soon be in use. Ampex Corp., maker of top-quality tape recorders, has developed a new TV tape recorder that does a clearer, more economical job of reproducing TV programs than the kinescope system currently in use, can record an hour-long program on a 14-in. roll of tape. Columbia Broadcasting System has ordered three of the new machines (at $75,000 each), will substitute them for kinescopes this August...
...face of the industry's rock and roll frenzy, Capitol has remained calm; both Poor People and Antigua are noted for their melody. Capitol has also done a notable job with old-line performers, spinning them to new popularity. In 1954 Capitol went out after Frank Sinatra, then dying on the vine, talked him into coming over, and launched the Sinatra revival. Since then it has made other "cold" artists real cool: Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Harry James, Fred Waring. Capitol's reward: 1955 sales soared 25% over 1954 to a record...
...theater is Tuxahatchie County, with its poor-white farms and rich bottom lands. Virtue is represented by Fate Laird, who comes onstage with a roll of factory-wage dollar bills pinned to his work shirt. He has a vision of the good life, where he plows a straight furrow in bare feet, and feels the good black soil of the valley squinch between his toes. It is Faulkner country, but there is a difference between Deal's Tuxahatchie and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. In Faulkner's unprincipled principality, it is the proletarian Snopses who slither to power over...