Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio State's Olympian Glenn Davis was easily the star of the Big Ten track championships at Lafayette, Ind. Running around two turns of the carefully tamped track, Davis was clocked in 0:45.8, tying the 440-yd. world's record set in 1956 by another U.S. Olympian. California's Jim Lea. Davis' performance was all the more impressive since Lea set his mark running out of a chute at Modesto, Calif., was slowed down by only one turn. Big Ten team champion: Illinois. Second: the Hoosiers of Indiana...
...dues from employees' paychecks, and they can refuse to pay union stewards who now work in plants and handle grievances, etc. The union let it be known that if no contract is signed, the U.A.W. will not be responsible for any scattered stoppages or slowdowns by workers. In turn, the companies let it be known that if unionists try such harassing tactics, the plants will be closed down...
Some U.S. businessmen do not believe that the economy will turn upward in 1958. Last week Walter E. Hoadley Jr., treasurer of Armstrong Cork Co. and a top building-industry economist, gave his reasons for this view to the New York Society of Security Analysts. Said Hoadley: "I do not see evidence of a quick upturn." The recession will last "through 1960. It is more than a rolling readjustment...
...This creation and stimulation of desire has put more people to work and, in turn, made their desires possible to fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather and immodesty, when a house is only a shelter, when the thrill is gone out of buying and pride fades out of ownership, we are headed for something worse than a mere depression. We are headed for a whole new kind of economy that none of us are going...
Handout. In Cleveland, when Mrs. Ray Maylin stopped for a traffic light and put out her left arm to signal a turn, a man grabbed it and stripped off $800 worth of jewelry...