Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile safety, based them on qualities that the average driver needs in the average car during an average turn at the wheel: maneuverability in downtown traffic and passing ability on the open highway...
...noble exit from history's stage was written by Shakespeare for Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of the great Englishmen of his time. This biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall...
...sound of Neil McElroy. The Tide gets rolled back, and the show is on the road...
Viewing this kind of against-the-tide price inflation (TIME, Jan. 6) as a serious danger sign, the President pledged the Administration to promote price stability. But he also called upon business and labor to show restraint in using their power to force up prices and wages. Price boosts unjustified by cost increases can curb demand. Wage boosts unjustified by productivity increases can push prices upward, slow down economic recovery...
...British creditors of low-flying Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...