Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extended in a House-Senate compromise the Public Law 480 authority ($1.5 billion a year) to sell Government-owned surplus farm products abroad (often for soft currencies) for another two years. Authorized but not required: a start on an Administration-opposed food-stamp scheme for delivering $500 million worth of surplus to the U.S. needy...
...crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition for us. Particularly for his sons." He wanted Henry to become a schoolteacher, like his older brother Raymond and sister Mary...
...throated sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio...
...competition coming from the Big Three's compact cars, Studebaker rolled out a Lark that is the only convertible among the 1960 U.S. compact cars, and the smallest (wheelbase: 108½ in.) and lowest-priced (factory list: $2,176, plus extras, taxes, transport) of all the U.S. soft-top models. Studebaker also added a four-door, eight-passenger Lark station wagon that will list for $2,175, not counting taxes and transport. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill forecast that Studebaker's market will wing up by one-third in 1960, lifting Lark sales close...
...Here's what will happen next," says Vice President Russell H. Metzner of Cleveland's Central National Bank. "The cost of living will rise. Hard goods will be immediately affected because a bigger share of consumer spending will go to the cost-of-living items [mostly soft goods]. And then we will have a drastic reduction in inventories and capital expenditures. I expect to see the downturn in late 1960 or early...