Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...based on Daphne du Maurier's bestselling 1957 novel, is a half-serious attempt to articulate on film some notions that fascinated the author: "I wanted to discover, for myself, what happened to a man who was no longer himself. Would he, assuming the identity of another, take on the sins and the burdens and the emotions of the [other] or would his own hidden secret self become released in the other's image and so take charge...
...long enjoyed -$6.5 billion as recently as 1957. At best, says Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, exports will rise $1 billion in the next year, led by lower-priced U.S. cotton and the new jets. These new realities of world trade have moved the Administration to take a sterner view of foreign nations that still jealously preserve high tariffs and import quotas against dollar goods long after the need is past. At next month's annual meeting of the World Bank in Washington, the Administration will launch its strongest campaign yet to persuade other nations to ease...
...control quality and monitor shipments. Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...
...foreign competition. From the State Department came an announcement that Air France will get an additional U.S. gateway at Baltimore and a polar route to the U.S. West Coast. BOAC will get the right to land at Tokyo on its San Francisco-Hong Kong run, which is expected to take $7,800,000 yearly away from U.S. lines. A CAB examiner recommended that Air India be authorized to fly into...
...controls the company, not to visit the plant without forewarning Anast (replied Lear: "I'm going to make believe, young man, that I did not hear that"). Showing who is boss, Bill Lear, without warning, turned to Director Handschumacher at the quarterly board meeting, asked if he would take over. Says Lear of Handschumacher, a former Lear vice president, who left in 1957 to become a veep of Rheem Manufacturing Co.: "I told him not to get too far away, that we had plans...