Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castro's battlefield victory last week was a crafty, U.S.-born double agent who worked so smoothly that he lured Castro's enemies into the open at home and conned a Dominican invasion plane into a trap in central Cuba, nipping the first major rebellion against the seven-month-old regime...
...came back from a $1,400,000 loss in the first half last year to earn 54? per share for the first six months of 1959, was off 2⅞ for the week. Motorola, which set a second-half record with $3.04 per share v. 76? last year, dipped seven points...
This week National announced that Jim Price had got his plants-nine of them in as many states-through a merger with seven other U.S. home suppliers. Seven of the nine plants are in areas where National formerly sold no houses; they put National's network of twelve factories within a 200-mile radius of almost every major market east of the Rockies. With his new acquisitions Price this year expects to boost National's sales to $100 million, its production to 45,000 units-4.3% of all single-family, nonfarm houses built...
...Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...
Aluminum House. Price's most radical house to date is made of aluminum. Though he introduced it only seven months ago, the house, which has only a few parts made of wood or Masonite, accounts for 30% of all National's sales, and Price expects it to hit 70% by 1960. He hopes to make it even more attractive with a 1960 model that has an exterior of aluminum, including roof, doors, window frames and exterior trim. He paints his aluminum houses with the same shiny baked enamel used on automobiles. (it lasts three or four times longer...