Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Economist-Vice President, 45-year-old George Bassett Roberts, tall, owlish professorial son of the bank's economist-emeritus, 82-yeaR-old George Evan Roberts. In the same Letter last week Economist Roberts also published the nine-month earnings figures of his selected 320 corporations-a far better gauge than last quarter reports of how much real prosperity, ex-war-boom, U. S. business has achieved. By industrial groups these nine month earnings showed...
...Even more spectacular was the record of Bethlehem Steel, which makes money at a lower rate of operations than its big brother, which is now operating at full capacity, whose common earnings shot up from nothing in the 1938 quarter to $1.10 in the 1939 period, 132% better per share than Big Steel. Bethlehem's nine month earnings: $11,609,456 against last year...
...each of 20 events, tabulated them (on a point system, of 10-5-4-3-2-1), and concluded that the U. S. -with a total of 209 3/10 points-still has the best track & field athletes in the world. Ranking second was Finland, with 108 points-34 points better than third-place Germany, 94 better than sixth-place Britain...
...People's Game of 1939, most football fans agreed that it was not Irish luck but heads-up football that has made this gear's Notre Dame machine one of the few undefeated, untied teams in the country. Except for Notre Dame's bigger & better backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered, scored a touchdown...
...Users of alcohol produce better babies than teetotalers (alcohol kills the weaker sperm...