Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Died. Victor Emanuel, 62, a flamboyant operator from Dayton (AVCO, Republic Steel Corp.) and Government adviser (Aircraft Production Council, advisory committee of U.S. Senate Banking and Currency Committee), who liked to put knowledgeable Washingtonians, e.g., Presidential Crony George Allen, on his boards of directors; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...
Died. Kyle S. Crichton, 64, writer and editor who once turned out social significance with his left hand (as an editor of the Communist New Masses under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of...
Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter...
Prices, which have been slowly edging up, have taken a sudden jump. The Labor Department reported last week that its cost-of-living index rose nearly half a point to 127.3 of the 1947-49 average-the biggest monthly jump since April, and the ninth rise in the past ten...
The earnings of factory workers kept pace with the living cost, also hit new records in October. They rose to $81.50 weekly, up 50? from September. Because of the cost-of-living index's rise, nearly 1,100,000 workers in the auto and farm-equipment industries will get...