Word: tooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Summer Place (Warner), based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in...
For the nation's steelmakers, the strike's effect on earnings was all too apparent. All continued to report heavy third-period losses, though most showed nine-month results ahead of last year. Top ranking U.S. Steel had its first quarterly loss in 21 years, and its largest...
In 1955, said Saulnier, a too rapid expansion of credit caused overbuying of autos and other consumer durables, helped bring on the recession of 1957. If consumer installment purchasing increases too rapidly now and after the steel strike, Saulnier fears U.S. consumers will overreach themselves, bring on a decline.
KAISER moved into automaking, and Edgar again got a big job-running Kaiser-Frazer. But the auto industry proved too tough to crack. K.-F. lost about $52 million before it stopped making passenger cars. Edgar cut the loss by buying up the assets of Jeep-maker Willys-Overland, now...
What has been overlooked by most classicists as well as by the grammarians of ancient Greece. Translator Graves theorizes, is that the Iliad was meant to be entertainment, not solemn tragedy. In Graves's view, the poem is a satirical work in which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose...