Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than any other place in the nation, Washington yearned for spring. It was partly because Washingtonians, like people everywhere, looked toward the uplift in human spirit that the season normally brings. It was partly because Washington, like many another section of the U.S., had gone through a dismal winter, strangled by heavy snows, pelted by freezing rains, chilblained and miserable. But what set Washington apart in its eagerness for spring was the Administration's expectation of economic upturn that would bring the U.S. out of a recession that would be forever associated with bleak Winter...
...consumer price index went up 0.2% during February to a new inflation high of 122.5 (vindex of 100 in 1947-49). Sharpest rise in the recession month's inflation was the advance of 0.4% in food prices, caused mostly by fresh fruit and vegetable shortages after the harsh winter freeze in Florida and the Deep South. Food prices are not likely to head downward, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics, until spring-grown fruits and vegetables reach the market in May or June...
...Winter's last crushing blow began as a weak storm in the South. Laden with tropic moisture, it swung up the East Coast, began dumping wet snow, thousands of tons of it, across a 200-mile-wide belt, from Virginia all the way up to Maine...
After a miserable January, sales rose in late February, and are still climbing in March, with some dealers reporting business 100% better than last month. These increases encouraged dealers to hope that the bad winter weather was as responsible for poor sales as all the complaints about Detroit's 1958 cars. One all-inclusive gripe, from Economist Slichter, who drives a 1951 Ford and recently refused to buy a 1958 model: "They are inconveniently long, inconveniently wide, inconveniently low, wasteful of gas, expensive to maintain, clumsy and ugly...
...last year. Installment credit, rising by $2.5 billion in 1957, has shown no serious falloff. While consumers are cutting back in durable goods, they are not cutting down on food, clothing, or services. With salesmanship, the consumer can even be enticed into buying summer appliances in the dead of winter. Said an executive of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., which ran an air-conditioner sale in February's zero weather: "It was fantastic. We sold out, reordered, sold out again. It goes to show that the money is there when the public wants something and gets...