Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower, at his midweek press conference, tied the "recession" tag to the economy for the first time since droop set in last autumn (and once even slipped into calling it a "depression"). Added the Labor Department: the total of laid-off workers drawing unemployment-compensation checks hit 3,130,200 in mid-February, a record 7.5% of the 42 million earners covered by the system...
...minimum-fixed prices for its wares last week (see Retail Trade), it belatedly recognized a basic fact of modern U.S. retailing. Nobody, or practically nobody, pays list price any more-for appliances, or for autos, furniture, cameras, jewelry, even baby buggies. As one Milwaukee retailer says: "The price tag on my merchandise means nothing...
...million to look like a small version of the Continental Mark II. It comes with a standard 3OO-h.p. Thunderbird V-8 engine. The wheelbase has grown by a full 11 in. to 113 in., and the overall length by 2 ft. Also changed is the price tag, by about $200 over the 1957 list of $3,158 for a hardtop. Ford's sales goal for the grownup Thunderbird: between 35,000 and 50,000 a year...
...German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose interest was still further excited by rumors that the passion was even more flaming off the screen than on. In 1952, when Borsche was replaced by O. W. Fischer, "Schell-Fisch" became an even...
Life in Brooklyn was tough enough for the Dodgers' fireballing pitcher, Don Newcombe. His good right arm ached all summer long and the doctors could find little wrong; opposition batters were beginning to tag him, and he wound up the 1957 season with a dismal record of eleven victories and twelve defeats. He was almost ready to believe the unkind critics who maintained that he lost his stuff in the clutch. Then things got worse. The Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, and Big Newk (6 ft. 4 in.) began to worry himself witless over the prospect of being forced...