Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly half the time will have gone before the mills reach anything like capacity production; layoffs because of steel shortages, which rose from 10,000 a week in mid-September to 45,500 a week in late October, will continue to rise for perhaps six weeks (see BUSINESS) before the output of new steel will be felt through the steel-strapped economy...
...unhappy obscenity and proceeded to his room. Once there, he began grinding out haiku after haiku in an attempt to produce the Oriental poetry equivalent of three thousand words of fiction. "Window panes are crying raindrops/Bicycles skid on slippery streets/Who will sunbathe with me?" "Japanese beetles crawl on rose bushes...
Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22 million to $163 million, assets from $47 million to $112 million, by expanding into over 30 new businesses...
Last week the Federal Reserve Board announced that in September outstanding consumer credit rose to a record high of $48.4 billion. New loans are well ahead of repayments, but this is usual during a period of credit expansion, just as repayments outran new loans during the recession. Of the loan total, $37.5 billion was installment credit, an increase of $485 million over August. While this was the smallest monthly increase since last March, installment credit this year is expected to rise about $6 billion v. a $5.4 billion increase...
...Another Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Music and dancing by the team that put the sparkle into last year's award-winning show: Astaire, Barrie Chase, the Jonah Jones Quartet, David Rose and his orchestra, and Producer-Director Bud Yorkin. Color...