Word: sold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Truman, the council rose to real power when John F. Kennedy appointed Walter Heller to be chairman in 1960. Heller was the leading advocate of the Keynesian "New Economics"-the policy of flexibly adjusting taxes, Government spending, and the money supply to influence the economy -and he sold Kennedy on the idea of cutting taxes to stimulate business and employment. His successors, Gardner Ackley and Arthur Okun, have acted as important policymakers within the Johnson Administration. President-elect Nixon says that he will give "a major role" to the council, and he hails McCracken as "a centrist...
When the '69 models were introduced in October, the industry had its best one-month record in history, selling 886,000. In November another 786,000 new cars were sold. That was predictably fewer than in the previous month of model introductions, the usual early impulse buying and fleet orders; still the total was 27% higher than in November 1967. This month the automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break...
...selling well, proving Detroit's contention that there are two ways for the market to grow. The fastest-rising car is Pontiac's Grand Prix, which has an electric rear-window defroster and the longest hood in the industry and retails for $3,777 without extras. Pontiac sold 24,874 of them in October and November, more than during all of the 1968 model year...
Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...
...this first novel, his descriptions of hotels, restaurants, odd corners of small towns and the seedy people who inhabit them, haunt the mind's eye. Yet Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum. Perhaps because Jones has caught lobsters, sold boats, worked on newspapers and taught school, his showy invasion of the private terrors that lurk just below the surface of apparently calm minds seems somehow fresh-and far removed from the structural, Stygian, self-conscious atrocities of the black comedians with whom he will inevitably be compared...