Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began in textiles, oil and other industries before the U.S. downturn. On top of that, President Ruiz Cortines cut back federal spending sharply. Recently, however, the government 1) began to spend for public works to check the business decline, and 2) devalued the peso to help boost exports and spur the declining tourist trade...
...spur salesmen, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks announced in January (in a TIME story on salesmanship) that he would not buy a new car until a salesman came around and sold him one. He was promptly bombarded by phone calls, letters and wires. The most persistent bombardier: Studebaker Corp.'s Board Chairman Paul Hoffman, who arranged for trial spins in Studebakers, orated on their good qualities. Last week Secretary Weeks finally gave in and signed up for the works: a black, four-door Land Cruiser with power steering, automatic transmission, radio, white-wall tires, and foam-rubber upholstery covered with...
Other canners besides Can-a-Pop are invading the fast-growing market. Bev-Rich Inc., backed by the makers of Valley Forge beer, has four flavors on sale in the East, expects to sell 2,000.000 cases the first year. Canada Dry is test-marketing canned Spur cola in the Phila- delphia area. In Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., Pabst Brewing Co.'s soft-drink division launched a singing commercial campaign for "Tasty Tap-a-Cola in-the flat-top can." White Rock Corp. is selling canned root beer, lemon-lime and black-cherry pop in Los Angeles. In Chicago...
...style of an aria with a few optional passages scattered along the way, at which points Danny could go into a comic Kayedenza if the inspiration came. And inspiration does come. One of the funniest parts of the picture is the scene in which Kaye. on the spur of the moment, becomes an automobile salesman sputtering trade talk ("overhead underslung oscillating compression decravinator") as if his teeth were a string of firecrackers...
...minutes, the press and the President provided ample evidence that 1) the President of the U.S. faces more big and little problems than any other man in the world, and 2) he is fully expected to talk about any or all of them, in minute detail, and on the spur of the moment...