Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing wave of price cutting by department stores and G.E.'s retreat from a one-price policy point up the astonishing growth of discount houses. They now have 85%-90% of major appliance sales in the U.S., according to the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Since 1939, said NRDGA, department-store sales of electrical appliances have fallen from...
...Wave That Flag...
...have a latent urge to wave the flag, change administration policy, and influence people, the editorial board provides both typewriters and tutelage...
Caught in a wave of public indignation over the Illegitimate Issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin published last week, most of the editors of the CRIMSON will spend today in jail awaiting trial for disturbing the peace. Tomorrow's CRIMSON will, therefore, not appear. Police have promised the editors a turkey dinner tomorrow and release in time for Friday's edition...
...reason for Detroit's optimism could be found in the dealers' empty lots. Last May a record 607,275 new cars were waiting to be sold; by last month the number had been slashed to 305,314, without a wave of panic selling. Another reason lay in the 1955 products coming off the assembly lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king...