Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan to add a $61 million rolling mill to his plant...
...Answer. The rest of the industry had a ready answer to the President's challenge. Walter S. Tower, president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, gave it. In 1948, said he, the industry had added 1,800,000 net tons of capacity. This year and next it will add 2,700,000 tons more and its total expansion bill will come to $2 billion...
...most cogent argument against expansion was that it now costs an estimated $300 to add one ton of new capacity for finished steel (v. $75 prewar). Yet tax allowances for depreciation do not take the high replacement cost into account. For example, much of the cash being put in U.S. Steel's depreciation reserve has come out of profits and, as such, is taxable...
...started up again. The businessmen of good will-such as International Harvester's Fowler McCormick-who had cut prices in hopes of starting a healthy downtrend all around, had to change course; they put prices up again. The hope had been that the U.S. would be able to add the burdens of ECA and rearmament without more inflation; that they would merely take up the slack in the economy as it developed...
...love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...