Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pratt Checks Eli Rush...
...fewer available goods despite increased production comes from outright figure faking. A full quarter of 1958's bumper "grain" crop was not grain at all but sweet potatoes, which Chinese dislike, and eat only when nothing else is available. But the fundamental trouble is that in their headlong rush to convert China into a modern industrial power, Peking's planners have tried to do too much too soon...
...that a run to New York, for example, could be managed for as little as $8 per passenger. Since there is a minimum rental charge on the planes, flights to points nearer home will be somewhat less money-saving. Nonetheless, club members have high hopes of exploiting the weekend rush to women's colleges such as Smith and Mt. Holyoke...
...both playwright and director of The Possessed, Camus combined his evolving philosophy with his considerable theatrical skill. To handle the novel's bewildering rush toward chaos, Camus uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded intrigues of nihilists, whom Camus makes strongly reminiscent of modern Marxists. Perhaps the play's chief quality is Camus' adroit emphasis of Nikolay Stavrogin (ably played by Pierre Vaneck), the book's most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean...
...strong upturn in steel was in answer to rising consumption, plus a rush to build inventories as a hedge against a steel strike this summer. The three-year contract with the A.F.L.-C.I.O. United Steelworkers runs out July 1, and the steel union has already done some tough talking about the big pay package-estimated at $1 billion a year in wage increases and benefits-it expects to demand. Most steelmen, along with their customers, expect a strike. The automakers, trying to lay in enough steel for their 1959 models and part of their 1960 production, guaranteed their suppliers against...