Word: spells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect our children to enroll in science courses when most of them can't even spell...
...together like cognac and coffee. Colette, too, ran the streets of Montmartre when she was a child. She worked, with no success, in a succession of sleazy cafes in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers ("I don't like to sing against the sound of popping champagne corks"). After a spell as a secretary (in a music publishing house) and as a band vocalist, she moved, still virtually unknown, into the role of Irma...
Copper executives are watching eagerly for the first volume buying that would spell the turn. Current earnings are running below dividends, but the cash-rich copper producers would have no trouble paying them if they thought the turn was at hand. Says Charlie Cox: "We're watching the economy. The pipeline is about dried out. It won't take much to turn prices when the economy perks...
...This is the great spellbinder," said Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams as he defended United Auto Workers' President Walter Philip Reuther to a U.A.W. national convention in Detroit last week. But this time Reuther wove no spell of oratorical magic. What he did do was get 3,200 U.A.W. delegates to approve his 1958 set of demands for the auto industry's contract negotiations opening early in April. Items as approved...
...last two months of 1957, construction was off by 4%, coal production had declined in 1957 for the first time since World War II, and unemployment had reached its highest level (1,200,000) since 1954. Privately, Erhard told friends that the German economy has paused for "a breathing spell." Confronted with the added threat of strikes by transport, coal and bank workers demanding shorter hours and more pay, the engineer of the German miracle had a typically German solution. Citizens, said Erhard, should "ponder whether the German people ought not to be prepared, instead of working less than...