Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessities are down as much as 27%, while sales of necessities, e.g., food and drugs, just hold their own. ¶ Big, long-term purchases reflecting confidence in the future, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, are off 20% to 50%. ¶ U.S. investment, which rose $25 million (to a total of $850 million) even in the war year of 1958, has virtually stopped. ¶ Tourism, such a bright prospect that three big new hotels opened for the 1957-58 season, is nearly dead, with 60% to 80% of the rooms empty. The largest hotels are running...
...wife went for $112,000; Georges Braque's cubist Woman with Mandolin brought $100,800. more than double the previous top price for a Braque canvas; a pair of Renoir portraits (Ambroise Vollard as a Toreador and Misia Sert) sold for $61,600 and $44,800. Total sale: $613,256, which Chrysler will give to his Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Mass., opened last year to show part of his massive (some 4,000 works valued at between $12 million to $15 million ) collection...
...directorial note in the program, explains that he believes Streetcar to be a play about man's "procreative power" as represented by Stanley Kowalski rather than Blanche DuBois' "vulnerability." Unfortunately, this thesis does not play successfully throughout, and the result is an energetic but uneven production. "The total horror of Blanche's affliction" may be, as Mr. Rabb claims, "her incapability of surviving," but perhaps this statement explains why his production never bores but seldom moves one. The fall of Blanche DuBois should certainly evoke a greater reaction than horror. Otherwise she becomes grotesque, and her viewers cannot take...
...Construction-contract awards for dwellings, warehouses and office buildings rose 4% in May over last year to reach $3.5 billion; housing awards alone climbed 25%. Total construction gain for the first five months: 17% over last year...
...with the speed- and potential hazard-of a .45-cal. bullet. Last week, after buzzing Senators for weeks, Pete Quesada won a major victory. The Sen ate restored $48.8 million of the $76 million cut by the House from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget, bringing the total appropriation for operating expenses to within only $6,000,000 of what Quesada asked. Chances for the revised bill's passage : excellent. The restoration gives Quesada virtually all he wanted, means that he will have the money to set up air controls, hire the men to man radar stations...