Word: upturning
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...toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...
...survey attributed much of the President's upturn to his all-out fight for Pentagon reorganization. The public, concluded the pollsters, likes a President who exerts strong leadership...
...Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
Detroit's trouble in 1958 is only too evident on the sales graphs. Last week's reports showed a slight upturn in the last ten days of April. But for the first four months of the year, the industry is down a crushing 33%-and there are few signs of the traditional spring upsurge. Across the nation, automen frantically poured on the oldfashioned, hand-pumping hard sell, hurled themselves into door-to-door sales drives and marathon "cold turkey'' telephone campaigns. Chicago salesmen sported handkerchiefs hopefully-but falsely -embroidered "Business Is Good." In St. Louis, Milwaukee...
...further action should be required, a tax cut is the fastest, the best and surest method" to stimulate an upturn. ''However, a tax cut will not do the job unless it is the right kind. It must be designed to put money in the hands of investors and job creators as well as consumers...