Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom, and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865 (TIME, Aug. 31), Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory proudly announced in the House of Commons that Britain was immediately repaying all $250 million, plus $5,500,000 in interest, an impressive 5½ years ahead of schedule...
...nation's steelmakers, the strike's effect on earnings was all too apparent. All continued to report heavy third-period losses, though most showed nine-month results ahead of last year. Top ranking U.S. Steel had its first quarterly loss in 21 years, and its largest ever. Big Steel lost $31 million in the July-September period, but had nine months' earnings of $3.80 per share v. $3.56 last year. Other nine-month steel earnings: 1958 1959 Bethlehem Steel $1.68 $1.75 Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings...
Last week the Federal Reserve Board announced that in September outstanding consumer credit rose to a record high of $48.4 billion. New loans are well ahead of repayments, but this is usual during a period of credit expansion, just as repayments outran new loans during the recession. Of the loan total, $37.5 billion was installment credit, an increase of $485 million over August. While this was the smallest monthly increase since last March, installment credit this year is expected to rise about $6 billion v. a $5.4 billion increase...
...turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay Bedford, a boyhood chum, who is now general manager of Kaiser Aircraft & Electronics. Swift currents and widely varying water levels made the job a tough problem-but the dam was finished a year ahead of schedule...
...with the steel industry, when they announced plans to build their Fontana steelworks on the West Coast with an RFC loan. Despite the industry's opposition, Kaiser built the largest steel plant west of the Mississippi (in ingot tonnage), paid off the Government loan 20 years ahead of time...