Word: helping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Edsel appeared, the bloom was gone from the medium-priced field, and a new boom was starting in the compact field, an area the Edsel research had overlooked completely. Edsel's styling, in particular the grille, which resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon, was not much help, even after the lemon was removed. In its first six months Edsel made 54,600 cars, and then went steadily downward: 26,500 cars in 1958, fewer than 30,000 cars so far in boom-time...
Born in David City, Neb., Hallmark's Hall started work at the age of nine selling lemon-extract perfume to help support his mother, worked on through high school selling postcards and helping in a bookstore. By 1912, he was in Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back...
...Help for Free Enterprise. A large part of the credit for the growth goes to Prime Minister Menzies' government, which had the great good sense to help private enterprise uncover the riches of the country. A basic move by Menzies' Liberal government was to ensure peace with Australia's strike-inclined unions. Under the Labor government that preceded Menzies' Liberals, Australia's key unions, then mainly Red-dominated, all but paralyzed the nation by strikes. The situation became so bad during a Red-organized coal strike that the government ordered army troops...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). First of a two-part report on underwater exploration, The Bottom of the Sea is made fathomable with the help of Navy Scientists Robert Dietz, Jacques Piccard and Andreas Rechnitzer...
...After suprising the crowd by jumping ahead to a quick 12-0 lead in the first quarter, the Yardlings were plagued by the same troubles that cost them several scoring chances earlier in the season. Although the backfield continued to perform admirably, the line was unable to offer sufficient help and the Yardling defense could not cope with Elis' running and passing attack...