Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
...there are some dark months ahead for autos. Dealers now have about 760,000 cars on hand, hope they clean them out before the introduction of 1959 models. To help clear the decks, the industry is expected to operate at an even lower rate than usual during the summer, may shut down earlier, stay closed longer when it retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter...
...overproduction, coupled with increased competition from African exporters (Ivory Coast, Uganda), has dragged prices down 30% to 40% in the last year. In oil, the trouble is not so much prices, but something equally damaging: a slump in demand, which will hold consumption to a 2.5% increase (v. the usual 6%) this year. In addition, the U.S., the world's biggest importer, has put on quotas that mean a 14% production cut and losses of $250,000 daily for Venezuela alone...
...before any of these things begin to happen Van Cliburn is bracing himself to clear one high hurdle. Late Monday afternoon, May 19, if he conforms to his usual ritual as a somewhat ailing health enthusiast, he will eat three raw eggs cracked into a glass with the yolks intact and swallowed in one agonized gulp. In the evening in his dressing room, he will dose himself from a staggering array of pills and nose drops. As a tension reliever, and because he thinks it helps clear his mind, he will sit down for several minutes bolt upright...
Buttonhook, line and slinker, the Nazis bought the argument, let Paris' 60-odd dressmakers carry on business almost as usual. Among them: Lelong proteégeés Balmain and Dior...