Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CITRUS PRICES, a big factor in January's .7% jump in living costs, will stay high because growers will need at least two years to make up for weather-ruined crop. Frozen juice prices will rise 15% to 20% in next two months; orange prices will remain about 25% above 1957 level...
...COLLISION DANGER is diminishing. CAB reports that near misses of aircraft in flight averaged 1.4 per day in last quarter of 1957 v. 3.6 in first quarter. Reason: at urging of Government and pilots' union, more pilots are flying on instruments in good as well as bad weather...
Business was great in January. In February, despite bad weather, it was almost great. As one exhibitor explained: "The kids got to neck somewhere, and it's too cold in a parked...
...quarter of the nation's radio listeners are on wheels-and often listening hard for word of road conditions. To get extra mileage from this vast audience, the Mutual Broadcasting System has set up an experimental "auto network" of 31 stations stretching from Buffalo to Miami. Purpose: frequent weather announcements plus advice not only on the best routes but on what local station to tune in for news of conditions on the next leg of a long drive north or south. If the new scheme works out, Mutual plans to extend it to all 450 network affiliates...
...year, dealers' stocks of unsold new cars stand at an estimated 900,000, a disturbing 167,000 above last year. Gloomier prophets are predicting sales of only 4,800,000 cars this year, v. 5,982,342 in 1957. The more optimistic feel that the unusually hard winter weather helped cut sales, and that balmy spring airs will bring an upsurge...