Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robertson took in the fair as the high spot of a European tour. "Everybody I talked to was interested in seeing the two largest exhibits, the Russian and ours," said Robertson. "But as I walked through the American exhibit, I didn't see America anywhere." What Robertson saw and did not like broke down as: ¶ Too much modern art. An admitted fan of Norman Rockwell's Satevepost covers, Robertson did a slow burn at acres of abstract art and blowtorch sculpture which looked, he said, as if it had been put together by a "bunch of neurotics...
What Wall Street saw...
...prices-they looked to be on the way up, too. Both Westinghouse President Mark W. Cresap Jr. and General Electric President Robert Paxton saw little chance of a price cut in appliances, instead talked of price increases forced on the industry by higher labor and material costs. In steel, which picked up speed to a scheduled operating rate of 63.8%, a little price cutting cropped up in the Detroit area, where Great Lakes Steel Corp. chopped prices $2 a ton. But it was strictly a cut to meet local competition and not likely to spread. The industry soon expects...
...went back home to Warsaw to share the fate of his fellow Jews, and to record the manner of their end. Ringelblum and his friends recruited a kind of intelligence staff who, with fantastic dedication, took time off from the task of survival to write notes on what they saw and suffered...
...million radar network that will eventually help control air traffic around 27 major U.S. cities. On Wall Street many a brokerage house tuned in with its own radar to take a reading on the firm responsible for the network: Raytheon Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass. They liked what they saw so well that Raytheon stock moved to an alltime high of $30 a share...