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...deterioration in the world situation. The Communist states have won major victories and the U.S. has lost respect and confidence . . . At home the economy seems to be creeping toward G.O.P. normalcy. The Administration is right when it says we are not in a depression. We are just in a rut. We are having a second-best year, and it is the optimists, not the pessimists, who hold out the hope that next year may not be much worse...
...Rut. To help motorists stuck in snow and mud, Campbell Chain Co. of York, Pa. has put on sale curved metal lugs that snap easily around tires. The Traction Klips, designed for emergency grip action, are flipped off with a special lever. Price: $5 a pair...
...think we should turn to the question of how to accomplish our ends through methods which we can countenance, and which are not methods of force. I be lieve we are in a rut. We seem to have neglected the arts of diplomacy and negotiation. Let's concentrate less on atomic power. Keep it in the background. Let's not allow our ordinary military power to go down, but let's concentrate as we have never concentrated before on the ways by which we can regain the friendship of statesmen and people who have been drifting away...
...Rut. As president of the new combine, in stepped able James J. (for John) Nance, 53, the automaker who pulled Packard out of the rut two years ago. Coming to Packard from General Electric's Hotpoint division (TIME, May 19, 1952), Nance found a company suffering from old age. Packard's plants were among the mustiest and least efficient in the industry; its sales organization was without drive or direction; its executives were aging and set in their ways. The company made money, but largely because of defense production and the happy fact that 1952 was still...
...here I am stuck in the same old rut Going my usual way A traveling life And you can't take the wife And not even a rise...