Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corp., the nation's largest steel producer, questioned the accuracy of the figures. Said its annual report, in which Chairman Roger Miles Blough reported a 15½% drop in earnings because of the steel strike: the Government's "widely quoted data on average hourly earnings are no longer representative of total employment costs" and are "completely inadequate as an indicator of an hour's work...
...quiz-show scandals last fall Brother Martin was described to House investigators as the RevIon executive who attended the weekly $64,000 Question producer sessions where contestants-and their longevity on the Revlon-sponsored series-were discussed. Martin denied any knowledge of rigging, pointed out that he no longer worked for Revlon anyway. Charles testified that he left Question questions to Martin, refused to discuss why his brother had quit...
...trader answers no. Says John Hight, executive director of the Committee for a National Trade Policy: "The Sugar Act is bad economics all the way around. There ought to be more competition. It's part of the whole protectionist problem. This part just happens to have been around longer." Free traders argue that the Sugar Act was spawned by an emergency that has long passed. The act is the outgrowth of a 1934 measure...
...students' suits. Fading flannel will plummet to 21% of the junior market, a mere 14% of the undergraduate trade. Best explanation for flannel's worsting by worsted, from a buyer in New York's Old School Tie haberdashery. Brooks Brothers: worsteds weigh less, wrinkle less, wear longer-and now are being made in flannel-like finishes and colors...
...progress in ending the Algerian crisis.