Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever. A master of the short story looks through the cracked picture windows at the anxieties of upper suburbia...
...Treasury last week was "gratified" at the public rush to buy the $3.5 billion worth of short-term securities (TIME, Oct. 6) it floated to raise cash. Largely because of their generous yields, the issues were oversubscribed by more than 100%, and the Treasury was forced to allot securities to buyers...
...pledge to narrow differentials in wages between workers doing the same job in different G.M. plants, which, the U.A.W. says, now range up to 27? an hour. G.M.'s top bargainer, Louis G. Seaton, beat down a U.A.W. demand for a bigger boost in short-week benefits than it got from Ford, i.e., maximum supplemental pay of $30 a week...
...Classic Simplicity." Ford teed off by blasting its competitors' "bombastic" styling, showed the press a line of short-finned, chrome-light Fords that offer "classic simplicity" and economy.* There will be greater difference in styling and price among the '593 than in many a year. Ford Division Boss James 0. Wright said the new Fords "series by series will be cheaper than Chevrolet or Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected...
...economists consider stabilization plans only short-term, stopgap methods of straightening out world markets, are convinced that they are as harmful as farm price supports-and will work no better in the long run. Says Simon D. Strauss, vice president of American Smelting & Refining Co., the world's largest smelter and refiner of lead, zinc and copper: "Such agreements, in the short run, would restore order to the market. But, for the long run, metals restrictions are useless. They usually protect the weakest, least efficient party to the pact...