I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.

The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

`` In view of the current expansion, which promises to be substantial '' he said the odds appear to favor rising interest rates in coming months, but `` there is reason to believe the change will not be as abrupt as in 1958 nor as severe as in late 1959 and 1960 ''.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

And there is the bright note: The gains were achieved in the face of temporary traffic lags late in 1960 and early in 1961 as a result of business recession.

Purchased from Britain in 1956, the Minas Gerais was reconstructed in the Netherlands in 1960 and refitted extensively in Brazil in the late 1970s, and again in 1993.

In the late fifties Johnny Cash recorded songs for his first two concept albums, Songs of Our Soil and Ride This Train, in which were released in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

In the late 20th-century, Most Guatemala emerged from a 36-year civil war ( 1960 – 96 ), which re-established representative democracy in 1996.

Gia Marie Carangi ( January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986 ) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Also influenced by Carl Barks in the late Fifties and up to about 1963 he wrote and penciled stories like Topolino e la collana Chirikawa ( 1960 ) or The Flying Scot ( 1957 ) that have, later, been translated in many different languages throughout the world.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the widow of late S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, took office as prime minister in 1960, and withstood an attempted coup d ' état in 1962.

After leaving Brown University, Turner returned to the South in late 1960 to become general manager of the Macon, Georgia branch of his father's business.

Abu Iyad traveled with Arafat to Kuwait in late 1960 ; Abu Jihad, also working as a teacher, had already been living there since 1959.

This emphasis can be traced through Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, the late works of Merleau-Ponty ( Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France, 1956 – 1960 ), and Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics.

and as late as 1960, Siegfried Kracauer was referring to noise as non-speech sound.

For potable water use, galvanized iron piping was commonplace in the United States from the late 1800s until around 1960.

Doug Owram argues that the Canadian boom took place from 1943 to 1960, but that culturally boomers ( everywhere ) were born between the late war years and about 1955 or 1956.

There was no memorial to her until the late 20th century, when a bronze tablet was erected on a wall near her grave by the Richard III Society in 1960.

The rise of the population birth rate during the late 19th and 20th centuries ( 1878 – 1960 ) was 70 %.

The red and black logo continued to be used in the northeast and maps distributed by Amoco in the late 1950s through 1960 showed both logos.

Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis's " Milestones " ( 1958 ), Kind of Blue ( 1959 ), and John Coltrane's classic quartet from 1960 – 64.

In 1960 the late Sir George White saved the car division from being lost in the BAC merger.

Informed estimates look for this market to approximately quadruple by the late 1960's, under the stimulus of new applications in the fields of banking and retailing, industrial process control, and information storage and retrieval.

Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4. 4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5. 6 million years ago ( late Miocene ).

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

Mercantilism is a nationalist form of early capitalism that came into existence approximately in the late 16th century.

In late 2010, Caltech completed a 1. 3 MW solar array projected to produce approximately 1. 6 GWh in 2011.

The years from approximately 1900 to the late 1940s saw very little in the way of crannog excavation in Scotland, while Ireland did witness some important and highly influential contributions.

The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.

In addition to approximately 200 other state owned businesses, privatization of the oil industry was scheduled to begin sometime in late 2005, though it is opposed by the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq.

As of late 2005, MPEG has grown to include approximately 350 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions.

The merged church had approximately 9 million members as of the late 1990s.

By the end of the 18th century the population had risen to 300 million from approximately 150 million during the late Ming Dynasty.

Like the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917, known as the October Revolution, immediately turned to Russian Civil War that dragged until approximately late 1920.

It is not clear when the transition to a terrestrial existence was made, but it is considered plausible that it took place between the Ordovician and late Silurian — approximately — via the intertidal zone.

A population census during the late Eastern Han Dynasty reported a population of approximately 50 million, while a population census during the early Western Jin Dynasty reported a population of approximately 16 million.

The graveyard had been in use from approximately 1550 to the late 17th century.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Oakland's black plurality reached its peak at approximately 47 % of the overall population.

The Corps had been reduced to approximately 6, 000 – 7, 000 men, 20 – 30 % of its original strength in the course of continuous action since late June including in the Falaise pocket ; losses in officers and NCOs had been especially high.

In late September 1998, Hurricane Georges caused approximately $ 445 million in damages and limited GDP growth for the year.

The second, far more virulent strain of the disease Ophiostoma novo-ulmi was identified in Europe in the late 1960s, and within a decade had killed over 20 million trees ( approximately 75 %) in the UK alone.

In late 1984 the heads of Disney's theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1, 200 possible European locations for the park.

Dorothy never again spoke with her late husband's family nor with Hefner, and remarried approximately a year later.

Human sacrifices were carried out in connection with the worship of Shakti until approximately the early modern period, and in Bengal perhaps as late as the early 19th century.

A longsword ( also spelled long sword, long-sword ) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for two handed use and a straight double-edged blade of around Current during the late medieval and Renaissance periods, approximately 1350 to 1550 ( with early and late use reaching into the 13th and 17th centuries ).