Word: handed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...synagogues and churches. In 1943, he got his first big break with San Francisco's crack opera company. Last summer, after a concert tour of the U.S., he decided to try his luck in Europe, "to avoid the inevitable fate of young American singers who wait hat in hand at the Metropolitan...
Nighttime Nibble. Two months ago while 2,000 hand-picked carabinieri scoured Sicily's wind-whipped hills in a vain search for Giuliano, Meldolesi hinted to Italian editors that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...
...Chemist Greenewalt, was his company able to spend ten years and $27 million on the "difficult and sometimes bitterly disappointing research" to develop nylon-and thus give rise to many new U.S. businesses. To illustrate his point, Greenewalt held a 1.2-lb. package of nylon (price: $1.60) in one hand and a woman's nylon dress in the other. The dress had been processed by six companies-spinner, throwster, weaver, etc.-and was priced to retail for $49.95. By 1948, said Greene-walt, "60% of Du Pont sales consisted of products that did not exist or were...
...caused by a great miscalculation. U.S. businessmen, roaring mad at those who had underestimated the ability of U.S. production to lick inflation, had made a similar mistake themselves. They had underestimated the appetite of U.S. citizens to consume. At the year's start, the supply of goods on hand and in the pipelines seemed enormous-$58.5 billion worth, enough to last the U.S. for three months even if not a wheel of industry turned...
...firs? six months. Since production dropped more than three times as fast, the U.S. was soon using up far more than it was producing. Then deep price cuts in such big consumer items as clothing brought even the most reluctant customers hustling back with wallets in hand. On top of that, consumption got a few healthy midyear boosts...