Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the years of retirement, Sibelius never moved far from his house, wrapped himself in cigar smoke and in music (he liked to listen to concerts from all over the world on a powerful short-wave set). Said he wistfully of jazz: "If I were only younger!" Of cowboy ballads: "They never get grey hair, do they?" He was said to have composed steadily, but nobody was able to discover just what the music was like. From 1932 on, when the late Serge Koussevitzky announced that he hoped to premiere Sibelius' Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony, audiences looked...
...must be applied more steadfastly and for a longer period" in order to shake some of the "superconfidence" out of the boom. Such anti-inflation measures involved a calculated "risk of producing some unemployment and possibly even plunging us into a recession. [But] we must be willing to accept short periods of price rise in order to ensure high employment and also short periods of temporary rise in unemployment in order to ensure stable prices...
...Secretary Mitchell, who writes it off as "just a bargaining point" for labor. Reasons Mitchell: by 1965 U.S. gross national product must jump 40%-to $560 billion-to supply goods to expected population of 193 million. For this, nation will need 10 million more workers, and since labor is short, a four-day week would be "to the detriment of the full use of our resources...
...PLANE ORDER will soon be awarded by United Air Lines, which will replace its short-haul fleet of 54 piston-engine Convairs with turboprops or jets at cost of about $150 million. Company is leaning toward Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. Electra turboprop...
...probably the most ingenious improvement in the fine art of can-opening since the cake with the file inside. Like most great inventions, this one is based upon a simple idea: Since prisons are designed to prevent exit, might it not be much simpler to effect entry? In short: the easiest way to break out is to break...