Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martinis & Stardust. To combat the downward trend, many U.S. lodges are hopefully evolving into family-style social clubs, adding TV, air conditioning, bowling alleys, restaurants. Says an Atlanta Eagle: "Our best weapons are bingo, dancing, and a good bar." In San Mateo, Calif., the Elks boosted attendance from 40% to 70% of enrolled membership by installing a swimming pool. In bone-dry Princeton, Ky. (pop. 5,388), one lodge makes its slot machines and beer parlor a drawing card. The Knights of Columbus' San Salvador Council No. 1 in New Haven, Conn, holds "National Nights," when it serves...
...Times had in mind the election returns trickling in from provincial assembly elections in overcrowded Java, home of two-thirds of Indonesia's 80 million people. The provincial assemblies are primarily advisory and therefore not very consequential, but as a sampling of the current trend of Indonesian public opinion, the elections were intensely disquieting. In three of Indonesia's biggest cities -Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya-the Communists either won absolute majorities or gained 100% over their 1955 vote. In east and central Java the Reds seemed sure to emerge as the biggest single party, and even in west...
...first months after the Hungarian revolt, the Communists arrested everyone they could find who had raised his hand during Budapest's Five Days of Freedom. The jails were filled with young people. But recently the pattern of arrests has shown a new trend. Obviously nettled by the United Nations report on Hungary describing the uprising as a spontaneous revolt of an entire people (TIME, July 1), the Communists are now setting out to document their own line-that the revolt was made by fascists, reactionary landowners and followers of Admiral Nicholas Horthy's pro-Nazi regime...
...record summer levels. Retail sales last week were still high (4% above last year), and steel production was edging up in anticipation of fall buying. Reported Boston's First National: "Confidence in the fall outlook remains firm, despite the low visibility and the lack of any clearly discernible trend in production." Many forecasters were taking an optimistic view of the second half, said Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, because of the economy's natural pattern of growth and several specific expectations. Among them: an auto upsurge when 1958 models come out, a rise in residential construction...
...tanker operator. To avoid high costs at home, American shipowners register so many new vessels under foreign flags that U.S.-flag fleet now totals only 19% of free world tanker tonnage v. 60% in 1945. U.S. will fall to fourth spot (behind Britain, Norway, Liberia) by 1961 unless trend is reversed...