Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Men Upstairs. Buchanan ordered a limousine for the ride to the airport, picked up some gauze bandages at a drugstore, knocked on Young's door-and walked right into the arms of three Castro intelligence agents, who had tracked Young to his hideaway. It was only then that...
New Breed of Reader. Established in 1845 by Rufus Porter, a Yankee tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades, the magazine grew up as a kind of inventor's catalogue, faithfully reporting Morse's telegraph, Catling's gun, and other newfangled devices of the time. Its Manhattan office...
In a Manhattan store packed with Christmas shoppers, an impatient customer stopped in front of a display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate...
The buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging...
Steel. Joseph L. Block, chairman of Inland Steel, predicted that, barring a new strike, the nation's mills will pour 70 million ingot tons in the first half, 130 million during the whole year, up from 92 million in 1959 and above the alltime high of 117 million in...