Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yacht named Nola, he rendezvoused with Elaine and a pair of arms-laden outboard-motor boats. One of the outboards' cargoes was transferred to Elaine without mishap, but when Tito turned to the other it was gone-pulled under the water by a too-heavy anchor on a short line in a rising tide...
...Airways, which transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...have risen 2% since the recession low, sooner and more sharply than after the two last recessions, despite continued high unemployment and unused industrial capacity. The upsetting fact about this, said Balderston, is that the price level did not dip during the recession, perhaps because the downturn was so short. "The recent advances are piled on top of a level that never dropped down. When prices fail to decline during a recession, then they are in position to contribute to inflation during expansion...
...competitive edge. Some U.S. exporters fail to study the foreign market, use it only as a dumping ground for surplus that they cannot sell to the U.S. For example, Germany dominates the radio-set market in Ecuador because her makers produce a compact, high-quality, inexpensive multiple-short-wave set; it sells well in a country where much of the listening is to foreign stations. Comparably priced U.S.-made sets bring in only nearby stations, have only a limited market. U.S. businessmen find it hard to obtain Government help in export financing when private capital is not available. John Lawrence...
...military version of the Boeing 707); Lear instruments are also used on the French Sud Aviation Caravelle jet airliners, but so far major U.S. commercial lines have hesitated to buy. Their reasons are that Lear's record for quality control, service and stocking spare parts has fallen short of the ingenuity of his inventions. Said one major airline executive last week: "If he got his standards up, he could put everybody else out of business...