Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's arguments against Harvard's continued participation in the National Student Association. But the Council's hasty disposal of this important issue last Monday and its subsequent refusal to entertain further discussion of the question at next Monday's meeting would indicate a blatant disregard for a large segment of student opinion...
...hint at the possibility of some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced...
Only one major segment of the economy has yet to turn around: car sales. Last week President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert showed off Chrysler Corp.'s new line, predicted that the industry's calendar 1959 sales will rise to 5,500,000 or 6,000,000, well above calendar 1958's estimated 4,600,000. But even optimistic Tex Colbert felt that buyers are not yet as enthusiastic as the industry would like. Said he: "People still show some tendency to wait for further signs of recovery before taking on new obligations." To loosen consumer purse strings...
...related to Dotto, and the game time-clocks its contestants against five-letter categories, e.g., a food beginning with "b," a farm product beginning with "h." The right answers disclose sections of some famous face on a screen. Like Dotto, a daytime-nighttime show, H-B's nighttime segment is emceed by 20-year-old Jack Linkletter, son of Art Linkletter, famed radio-TV master of ceremonies (People Are Funny). The show's catchy title means nothing, though the haggis is a famed and gamy Scots dish cooked in a sheep's stomach. A recent panel...
...Slowest segment of the economy to respond to the Department's turnaround on spending is the aircraft industry. While Defense has placed many new orders, most companies are just entering the stage of stepped-up employment. With orders nicely backlogging. the spurt of inventory building and deliveries is at least three months away...