Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans should take a good look at the writing on the wall and stop bickering about local politics, race prejudices, etc., and commence to work as a nation and a team...
...Nope," he nudged his mangled kit with a sneaker toe. "Mostly we just stand around and wait," he shrugged. "I gotta do it." A street light blazed and George leaned wearily against the wall. "It isn't much fun," he whispered and stared very hard at the brick patterns of the sidewalk. I left, quietly...
...Business Advisory Council, meeting in Hot Springs, Va. with Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, foresaw a lull in business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
Detroit's new .cars were not only big news to the industry and its faithful public; they were even bigger news to the U.S. economy. From Wall Street to Main Street, the hopes and fears of those fretting about a business slowdown (see Wall Street) focused around the new models and gave renewed emphasis to the old saying: "As the new cars go, so goes the new year." Exaggerated as that might be, the eagerness with which the public buys the new cars may well mean the difference between a good or a great year for U.S. business...
...road opened up a new market; every new mechanical advance-hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door. The famed Ford model T went 19 years without a basic body change. For the Hollywood movie star or Wall Street tycoon who wanted something special, there was the custom-body shop. But even Designer Gordon Buehrig, who styled three classic U.S. cars-the Duesenberg J, the boat-tailed Auburn Speedster, the Cord 810-worked almost unnoticed. "The job was just a job," says Buehrig, today a Ford engineer...