Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Bundy indicated yesterday that there will be no major alteration of the preliminary plans already made for the Loeb Drama Center. The general achitectural conception of the Theatre has been finished, and the firm of Hugh Stubbins and Associates will proceed at full speed to complete engineering drawings...
...there is a play surrounding Mr. Scott. It is not bad fun, either, since lively and emphatic family spats are going on almost all the time. However, except for Mr. Scott's setpiece, Comes a Day is badly contrived and badly phrased. Speed Lamkin wrote it, but he appears to have had a good deal of unwitting help. See if you can match up the elements from Comes a Day in Column A below with the plays in which these elements have previously appeared (Column B).* Column A Column B 1. Mother slaves away all day to support her family...
...further efforts to speed up graduate study, Elder recommended that students who had not passed their qualifying examinations by the end of their third year be made ineligible for a Harvard scholarship in their last year...
Dealers still had a tough time finding enough cars to sell. Local strikes idled General Motors workers. Most of Plymouth's production was shut down. Among the Big Three, only Ford rolled in full production. Chevrolet announced that it had enough dealer orders to produce full speed for 60 to 90 days. But strikebound Chevy had produced only 14,800 of the '593 for its 7,500 dealers...
...every schoolboy knows, it was wildly inflated credit that brought on the 1929 crash. When consumer credit rose to a record $44.8 billion at the end of 1957, many an economist wondered uneasily whether history would repeat itself. Would credit, which had helped speed the postwar boom, bring on and accelerate an economic downturn? Now that the recession is waning, the answer is in. The credit structure not only surprised the experts but showed strengthening timbers that no one ever suspected...