Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Row to Hoe. For a leader of Tammany to be taking postcard surveys like a sort of political science professor must set the bones of Boss Tweed and Dick Croker to rattling about in their coffins. But the public-opinion poll is only one of the many ways in which Tammany Hall, under De Sapio. has changed, is changing, and will continue to change...
Tammany, said Croker, "looks after them for the sake of their vote, grafts them upon the Republic, makes citizens of them, in short; and although you may not like our motives or our methods, what other agency is there by which so long a row could have been hoed so quickly or so well...
...Bigness Alone. Stretched over 570 acres along the Red Cedar River, the university has less than $5,000,000 to go to complete a $50 million building program, begun by President John Hannah in 1946. Along Harrison Road, a row of brick and glass dormitories costing $8,000,000 is now near completion. A $4,000,000 library and $2,500,000 housing development for married students will be finished by fall, and a $4,000,000 Animal Industries Building will go up some time next winter. All this is not done in the name of bigness alone...
...first six months, Chrysler reported earnings of $70 million, the highest in its history; Ford and G.M. were also pushing ahead. Overall retail sales in June soared to a $15.9 billion monthly rate, $1 billion higher than last year. In July, for the third month in a row, construction posted a record with $3.9 billion worth of new building. After the C.I.O.'s hefty wage increases, overall steel prices jumped 6.3%, a full ½% more than expected, with the chance of another ½% boost this fall when tin-plate manufacturers announce new prices. Consumer installment credit for June shot...
...third year in a row, French Bicyclist Louison Bobet made the long grind of the Tour de France (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), pedaled for 22 days through Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and around the rim of France, covered more than 2,700 miles and came home first to Paris' Parc-des-Princes stadium. Just 4 min. 52 sec. behind: Belgium's Jean Brankart...