Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were signs that he was not. Cars were often too big to park easily or put in a garage. Gas mileage dropped as gas prices rose. Much of the prestige that once went with a big car disappeared as new prestige articles became popular. Many consumers were apt to pass up Detroit's wiles, instead spend their money for recreation, housing, travel, boats...
...Detroit sniffed the first faint signs of dissatisfaction: a ripple of interest in imported cars. At first Detroit wrote it off as reverse big-car snobbery and the desire to have something different. Where the snobs led, the mobs followed. When foreign imports rose from .8% of the market in 1955 to 8% last year, it became clear that more than snobbery was at work...
Short Trips. At Alcoa, Romney was frustrated by lack of opportunity to advance through the layers of executives. "As near as I could figure it," he says, "I would have been about go by the time I rose to the top." When the Automobile Manufacturers Association offered him a job as manager of its Detroit office, he jumped at the chance...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). Maria Schell, suffering the pangs of unmarried motherhood, gives an often moving, sensitive performance...
...final game was a race against darkness since it started at 5 p.m., and there were no lights in the stadium. Kipp, pitching for the second time that day and the third time on the trip, rose to the occasion and quickly dispatched the Richmond batters for four innings, allowing a single safety. Renner Johnston hurled the last three frames and gave the Crimson a shutout victory...