Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post as centerfielder for the White Stockings (later the Chicago Cubs), became the Y.'s whoop-it-up religious director (1891-94), the organization was on its full-steam merry way. Today it is the largest Y. in the world (39 branches, 119,000 members), runs 13 summer camps, offers thousands of lonely strangers in Chicago a welcome bunk...
...more chess. To the annoyance of his sponsors at the Manhattan Chess Club, he has turned up his nose at the club tournament. Now that he is in the big time, Bobby can't be bothered. Winning the U.S. title makes him eligible for the interzonal finals this summer in Yugoslavia. And a good showing against the tough competition there would make him a potential challenger for the world championship-a title now being decided in Moscow between the defending champion, Russia's Vassily...
...same amount is being spent as last year. Installment credit, rising by $2.5 billion in 1957, has shown no serious falloff. While consumers are cutting back in durable goods, they are not cutting down on food, clothing, or services. With salesmanship, the consumer can even be enticed into buying summer appliances in the dead of winter. Said an executive of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., which ran an air-conditioner sale in February's zero weather: "It was fantastic. We sold out, reordered, sold out again. It goes to show that the money is there when...
...prices-must go up every year. Therefore, steelmen refuse to cut prices, not only because they say it would not improve business, but also because they face an automatic 7% wage increase next July 1; Detroit refuses to lower auto prices largely because it must renegotiate auto contracts this summer, expects that it will have to grant the U.A.W. a boost...
DRESS PRICES will creep up by summer as result of 8% wage increase won in dress strike (TIME, March...