Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Avunduk hastened to Prime Minister Adnan Menderes with the proposition. The Russians had put both of them on a very hot spot: no country is more thoroughly anti-Communist than Turkey, yet the businessmen of Turkey and the public would take it hard if such golden gifts were rejected at a time when a boom is dangerously stalled for lack of capital...
...task. The islanders refused to pay bills or take orders. Some 300 Senans were seriously ill with bronchitis, rheumatism and TB; many of the children had whooping cough. What lie de Sein needed, L'Haridon pleaded to mainland authorities, was a modern dispensary equipped with X ray to spot TB cases, plenty of drugs, and a helicopter to remove serious cases to the mainland. Last week the mainland offered to equip a dispensary-but only if the islanders would pay their taxes. "No. never. We will never surrender." said Innkeeper Felix Guilcher, and to a man, the aroused Senans...
Although auto output, the major soft spot in the economy, continued to sink, the industry was actually doing better than it seemed. For while production was down 20% in the first three months under '55's first quarter, retail car sales were down only 5%. The industry was now underproducing for the market, where last year it was overproducing. At midweek in Detroit, while some companies were still laying off employees, Plymouth recalled 2,400 workers...
...boot, Paratrooper Lieut. Sam Loggins tabs his radioman T/5 Britt Harris as a grandstand soldier. Against Loggins' orders, the corporal guides some medics into an orchard mined by the retreating Germans and helps bring out ten dead and wounded G.I.s. The lieutenant breaks him to private on the spot. Days later, Loggins finds out just how phony the heroism was; Harris had already cased the mine locations on a previous apple-stealing foray...
...firms (about 50%) is released, while the only complete report covering 4,000 companies (70%) is issued once a year. Though manufacturers' reports are usually accurate, the inventory figures from wholesale and retail sources are so poor that even the Commerce Department itself advises against using them to spot overall trends...