Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretch-out policy will have a profound effect on the entire economy. Many a manufacturer who has planned to hit peak output in 1953, and then cut back sharply, will have his schedules revised. The original peak will not be reached, but production will continue longer at the lower level, and there will be fewer cutbacks. In short, it looked now as if the armament-based boom would last much longer than most businessmen had thought...
Another U.S. landmark, Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, changed hands last week. Its buyer: Dallas Real-Estate Man Leo F. Corrigan, 57, whose holdings stretch from coast to coast (TIME, Jan. 27,1947). Corrigan estimates he controls more than $500 million worth of buildings and land. Among them: 14 office buildings, 40 apartment projects, 55 shopping centers, and 15 hotels...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...
Dwindling Wealth. Apart from money, the U.S. had to reassess how far it could stretch its own natural resources. The vast new expansion was using up such minerals as iron, copper and lead far faster than anyone had anticipated only a few years ago. In many ways the U.S., once the owner of seeming inexhaustible natural treasures, was in danger of becoming a have-not nation. The end of the fabulously rich ores of the Mesabi Range was already in sight. Steelmakers not only began shipping in ore from South America and Liberia, but in 1951 they began operating plants...
...first race at Jamaica, a $6500 claimer, five and a half furlongs, on a fast track. She broke from post position three, was third out of the gate, was in front at the quarter, dropped back to third at the half, was third by four lengths in the stretch, finished ninth, beaten 17 lengths...