Word: pace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannes Film Festival last May and now a candidate for an Oscar. Altogether the most charming short subject (running time: 18 minutes) in live action that the French film industry has produced since The Red Balloon (TIME, March 18, 1957), Fish swims along at a swift but graceful pace. Director Edmond Sechan tells his story clearly without words-and therefore without tiresome subtitles...
...high economy bounced along on other fronts, with only a few bumps to slow its headlong pace: ¶ Employment in the U.S. in November reached 65,640,000, a record for the month, despite a decline of 1,191,000 in the number of jobs from October and a rise in unemployment to 3,670,000. Most of the unemployment rise was due to layoffs in industries depending on steel; the decline in jobs, bigger than the rise in unemployment, indicated that many workers retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output...
...this money $16 million is being allocated to meet operating expenses and salaries. Although this allocation has tripled since 1929, Cabot commented that the income from endowment has not kept pace with the costs it must...
...take the "lock step" out of U.S. schools and get every child moving at his own pace, the mighty Fund for the Advancement of Education has spent $12.3 million in the past two years. Last week Fund President Clarence H. Faust suggested that the job has just begun. In a report on the fund's efforts since 1957 (notably in teacher training, educational TV), Faust pinpointed "an emerging central concern" of U.S. teachers and parents: the spreading notion that the sole goal of U.S. education is developing national manpower in competition with the Russians...
Nowhere did the rapid pace of the steel comeback have a more salutary effect than on Detroit's sorely tried auto industry...