Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sales of room air conditioners generally follow the thermometer. The past two summers were cool, and the industry's sales were slow, sliding along at roughly the 1956 level of $3.2 billion. This season is shaping up as the hottest in the industry's 57-year history. Carrier Corp., the industry's Goliath (total 1958 sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower...
Kirkland House's top-seeded shell won the annual House crew race yesterday, defeating Winthrop by a one-length margin. The Deacons covered the one-mile course in 5:42.2, as a fairly stiff headwind kept all times rather slow...
...upset of rather large proportions took place in the hurdles, where Dartmouth's John Ebers soundly defeated the varsity's Joel Landau in the slow time...
Mullin started out in the mile as if he were going for a four-minute effort, passing the 440 mark in 60.0 and hitting the 880 in 2:04. His time at the half, in fact, was a full eight seconds better than Dyke Benjamin's fatally slow pace in the varsity race. Mullin tired toward the end, but he held on for the record...
...accompanying junior varsity contest, the Crimson eight lost to a fast Princeton crew by slightly more than a second. The Tigers covered the course in 6:39.1, bettering the Crimson's 6:40.3. Again, Yale trailed far behind the leaders, turning in a slow 7:02.0 performance...