Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a professor on a field trip, Gypsy Rose Lee completed a swing through Europe, exposing herself to new trends in the arts. "In London," said Gypsy, "it is called the Paris striptease. In Paris, it is the American striptease. And in Vienna, it is the London striptease. I guess they're all trying to pass the blame...
...anyone in the market for their wares, which can be either adulation or silence. Among the buyers are minor government officials, politicians and industrialists. The national railroads are steady customers, happy to pay for the privilege of keeping minor train wrecks out of the news; press faultfinding with Pemex rose sharply after the state-owned oil company dropped its annual reporters' subsidy of 9,000,000 pesos...
...market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project, cut losses in half last year, expects soon to put it in the black. Result: RCA sales have jumped sharply for the first time in four years; first-half sales rose 17%, profits...
...cash during the last month, Treasury financing-despite Federal Reserve Board buying support-boosted the rate on 26-week Treasury bills to a record 4.15%. The yield on most long-term Government bonds was more than 4% for the first time since the 1930s, and some yields rose as high as 4.8%. Corporate bond yields also rose; unable to sell their public-utility offerings at the issued price, three Manhattan underwriting syndicates broke...
...junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley, together with Grant (now 83 but still active as board chairman), have waged a major campaign to shift Grant...