Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶ Department-store sales across the U.S. were off 7% for the latest week compared with the same week last year. ¶ Shipments of major appliances slipped to the year's lowest point in October. Factory sales of refrigerators were 29% below last year, washing machines 30% below.
Looking at the statistics, the Labor Department reported that it sees no impending pickup in new orders that would spur overall factory output: "So far in the fall-period, factory output has not shown a pickup of seasonal proportions."
Other pros and cons in the economy: ¶ New car sales continued their steady rise, were up sharply from a year earlier in mid-November. Dealers delivered 164,784 new U.S.-made cars in the Nov. 11-20 period, or 20,598 in each of the period's eight...
Into U.S. District Court in Philadelphia last week crowded more than 80 lawyers, intent on making the best deal possible with the Government in one of the biggest antitrust suits in U.S. history.
They represented 29 manufacturers of electrical equipment-including such big names as General Electric. Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers-and 48 present or former executives of those companies. All were charged by the Government with criminally conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion worth of...