Word: thirdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME has been trying to answer those questions and to make politics live through personalities as well as issues. In political 1960, politics is well populated with lively personalities. One of the liveliest is this week's cover subject, Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, who is making his third appearance on TIME's cover...
High winds made the third round the tournament's toughest. Palmer finished the first nine in 34. But on the 475-yd. 13th hole he gambled. Trying to make the green with his second shot, he landed instead in a creek, took a bogey 6 for the hole. And again, throughout most of the day, Palmer had putting troubles. Finishing the round with a 72, he groaned, "I've putted like Joe Shmokes two days in a row." At that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack...
Better weather also got credit for a step up in auto sales, which spurted in the final third of March. Besides a solid gain by Ford and Chevrolet (TIME, April 11 Dodge reported that March was its best month since 1952 and that sales for the model year so far are up 129%. Plymouth's 37% sales hike over last year made its first quarter the best since 1957, and Rambler set an alltime March and first-quarter record with a 37% sales gain over last year's record first quarter. Pontiac reported its best first quarter...
...asked for a 30% duty with a $10 minimum on all foreign imports. They complained that typewriter imports have grown from 36,000 ten years ago to 470,000 last year, now account for 30% of the U.S. market. The fact is that U.S. makers themselves account for one-third of all typewriter imports from their own plants overseas. If typewriters are protected, a similar case could be made by automakers, electrical-equipment producers and other U.S. manufacturers who import products from foreign subsidiaries...
...interest in Lionel. A month later Cohn borrowed $400,000 from Atlantidi, S.A., a Panamanian moneylender, used it to pay off the Mastan Corp. loan. Last month Cohn borrowed an additional $365,000 from Manhattan's Austin Associates Inc., to buy more Lionel stock and pay off one-third of the Hong Kong loan. Last week Cohn borrowed another $147,000 from Austin Associates, used it to help pay off the remainder of the Hong Kong loan. Despite all this razzle-dazzle, the Cohn group still owes $912,000 on Lionel stock it purchased...