Word: previously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...provided it would not cost him her mother's vote. With that, the crowd was well warmed up, and ready for the marrow of the speech. It is a well-conceived tactic, to offset the feeling that he is lacking in warmth. He gains from the violence of previous denunciations (such as the ugly shot of him, with the legend: "Would you buy a used car from this man?"), appearing more personable in person...
...Johns Hopkins' President Milton Eisenhower, 61, veteran of previous successful reigns at Kansas State College and Penn State University, has given direction to a famed but floundering campus (2,400 full-time students) whose undergraduates had seemed forgotten amid the brilliance of its graduate students. Eisenhower has restored balance, raised faculty salaries, will use Ford's money first for new science facilities...
...GOLD OUTFLOW continues to increase alarmingly. Treasury reported $181 million went abroad v. $50 million in previous week. The one week's loss was greater than for all the first six months of 1960, and the biggest weekly commercial loss since Depression...
...stock market last week was buffeted by the heaviest losses in weeks. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 15.42 points, biggest break since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. The slide was accelerated by the fact that when the average eased through the previous 1960 low of 599.10, which had withstood two previous onslaughts, a storm of selling was touched off. At week's end the average was down to 585.20, lowest level in 19 months...
...make sure dealers have enough new cars, automakers pushed production last week to near-record rates. General Motors' output was up 100% over the previous week; Ford was up 34.7%; Chrysler was up 18.7%. Auto production this month is 60% above last year-second only to the record rate achieved...