Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some money, but generally much less than last year. The Northern Pacific reported that per-share earnings in the first four months slid to 34? (v. 82? a year ago), but President Robert S. Macfarlane. almost alone among U.S. railroaders, predicted that a pickup in grain shipments and a tighter control of expenses would lift May earnings close to the 1957 level and bring a "relatively good June...
...IMPORT LID will be hammered down tighter on West Coast. Pressure is mounting in Washington for cut in quotas because imports to area have fallen 30% to 35% below ceiling of 220,100 bbl. per day owing to recession in demand. At very least, individual quotas of major companies will be slashed to make way for new importers, who have applied to bring...
...effect is bound to be a tighter squeeze on U.S. carriers. Braniff Airways, which began flying to Buenos Aires in 1948 and still gets a U.S. subsidy ($550,000 in the first half of 1957), may have to ask for more. Pan American's Latin American division, which in 1956 went off a subsidy that had been averaging $11 million a year, and Panagra, which went off subsidy at the end of 1954, may have to appeal again for aid from...
Tape & Technicians. The strikers professed to be uninterested in CBS's offer of a $185.50 weekly minimum wage unless it was accompanied by a tighter job-security clause in their new contract. But behind the talk of security was a looming new threat to their jobs: video tape, the electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen...
...world championship and many another driver to fame in the last 30 years. To Maserati's makers, Adolfo Orsi and his son Omar, the fame was expected to pave the way for quantity production of a new richly appointed sports-touring car rivaling Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari. When tighter new rules outmoded their biggest racers last fall, the Orsis were ready to quit racing and plunge completely into the luxury market with an $11,000 Maserati Gran Turismo 3500 (143 m.p.h...