Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when the old contract lapsed. That means a senior DC-7 pilot will pocket a lump of about $4,500 in back...
...Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have been if the G.N.P. had been measured in 1957 dollars. The constant-dollar G.N.P. has been computed back to 1947. By comparing the regular G.N.P. with the G.N.P. in constant dollars, economists will be able to tell at a glance how much real change has occurred in the total volume of production in the postwar period, how much apparent change was just the result of inflation...
...1930s and '40s, Eaton was busy parlaying what he salvaged from the Depression into a second fortune even bigger than the first. With the financial help of RFC, Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser...
...attack; in Brooklyn. In 1896, 18-year-old Giuseppe Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents, utility magnates and numberless clerks. One customer was young Lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another was a partner...
...midweek Barber was back on page 8. The cause: brown-eyed Balloon Girl Rosemary Mudie, 30, who, along with three male companions, was towed into Barbados by a fisherman after a 24-day, 3,000-mile air and sea passage from the Canary Islands in the boat-bottomed balloon Small World. Headlined Rosemary...