Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sticky, midsummer night air of the U.S. last week the fans were turning out in droves for a new national pastime: stock-car racing. Sheer speed was not the point; nobody was after records. The main idea was to pack 20 or 25 hopped-up cars on a tight, sharply-turned little quarter-mile track, and let them go for the bacon. The result was motor madness -a deafening combination of roaring engines and screeching tires, cars careening against each other or spinning into fences at 60 m.p.h...
...people. Many of them have fewer than 6,000 books, struggle along with budgets of less than $4,000, are able to buy only 330 books a year, including replacements of worn-out favorites. At least two-thirds of all U.S. libraries have no adequate stock of reference works, make too little attempt to enrich their shelves with classics...
Early Bird. In the impasse, New Yorkers, thirsting for war news, lapped up Hearst's Journal-American, and the tabloid Post. Wall Streeters were also sending out for the Newark (N.J.) News, the only nearby afternoon paper that prints the complete stock market tables. All that the W-T & S could offer were daily sports broadcasts with this hopeful commercial: "Brought to you by the New York World-Telegram and Sun-a newspaper worth waiting...
...chemicals, oils, rubber, steel, the story was the same. Wilmington's huge Du Pont turned in record sales of $580 million, boosted its net more than a third to an estimated $116 million, including $28 million in dividends from its General Motors .stock. Monsanto Chemical's net rose 64% to $13.1 million. Atlantic Refining Co.'s net shot up from $12.5 million to $17.6 million, General Tire & Rubber's rose an eye-popping 251% to $1,600,000, and Republic Steel, which turned in $25.4 million in the 1949 period, reported a rise to $37.7 million...
...lands might like to see some U.S. styles. He sent four slim, trim models off by air on a 25-day visit to Australia. Their mission: to stage 54 style shows in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, wearing $50,000 worth of fancy American-made clothes from Neiman-Marcus' stock. Marcus hopes that well-heeled Australians will be tempted...