Word: second-half
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Construction showed a $400 million gain to $4.1 billion in May-and gave the Northwest's troublesome lumber industry real hope for better business. Though output is down 10% from last year, lumbermen talk encouragingly of a second-half push that might carry the industry 2% or 3% ahead...
Many felt after it was all over that had the Crimson not lost the invaluable services of left halfback Chet Boulris and right tackle Pete Briggs early in the game, the outcome might have been different. The varsity had several second-half scoring opportunities on which it could not make good, and had the smooth-running Boulris been in the lineup, he might have made the difference...
...industry's longtime leader, which still supplies almost 50% of annual world market of 7,000,000 tons. Company has abandoned its offshore drilling lease in Gulf of Mexico, is slashing prices by 10% to fight competition. Result: Texas Gulf stock has slumped 36% in past year, and second-half earnings are expected to slump well below past years...
...racy (up to 75 m.p.h.), efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines a day to its 350 U.S. dealers...
...years ago the Crimson rugby team was leading Yale 8 to 0 at half time, but eventually lost 11 to 8. Last Saturday the Crimson also ran up an 8-0 margin in the first half, but this time scored the 11 second-half points also, to trounce the Elis 19 to 0 and complete a perfect Eastern League season...