Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students running the candy and cigarette counters in Harkness Commons and the Union have a tremendous advantage over House entrepreneurs, Burke pointed out, because of the volume of cigarette sales. In Harkness, for example, cigarette sales alone almost pay for the stand...
...allowing for prices and higher taxes, has real income kept pace with productivity? Yes, said C.E.D. Using its 1954 constant-dollar test, and allowing for steeper taxes, C.E.D. found that from 1929 to 1957 per capita disposable income also rose 1.6% a year. Since 1947, the rise has been almost 2% and gave the average U.S. citizen in mid-1959 a real income 26% higher than in 1947 and 60% higher than...
WHEREVER the truth lay, the thought of Charlie Revson being flabbergasted was almost more than Madison Avenue and the cosmetics industry could bear. When it comes to business, Revson not only knows all the answers, he knows the questions too. To underlings and admen who do not know them, Revson is a merciless taskmaster. He has axed his way through seven different ad agencies in the past three years, rubbed off dozens of account executives. At one time his executive turnover was so great that people who stayed at Revlon a year, so the story goes, got together...
...American Airlines Captain Don Tillett bought the Sitton Septic Tank Co. of Chicago for $35,000 four years ago, increased the gross to almost $130,000 last year...
...President, McKinley almost always expressed himself in sonorous platitudes, but never did he come closer to stating a political creed than in a speech made when he was running for Governor in 1891: "We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money" (what he meant was the sacredness of the gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what...