Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many broader economic factors seemed to support the inflationary fears. U.S. plants were running at their busiest rate in ten years-90% to 91% of capacity-meaning that manufacturers were not only bringing in their least-efficient, highest-cost equipment but were encountering the kind of optimum demand that tempts them to hike prices. With unemployment down to an eight-year low of 4.5%, labor shortages were showing up in more and more key areas, and workers felt that they could demand plumper pay. Strikes broke out in several industries from coal mining to cookie making...
...world's busiest bank has, in the past five years, doubled its number of branches (to 278), almost doubled its loans (to $7.9 billion), and ventured into such sidelines as equipment-leasing and factoring, a fairly risky form of finance in which loans are made against accounts receivable. Such expansion and diversification enabled Manhattan's 153-year-old First National City Bank last June to pass its archrival, the Chase Manhattan, and become the nation's second largest bank. With assets of $13.8 billion, it now ranks behind only California's Bank of America, which...
...busiest stock-exchange trading since the 1962 crash, bulls and bears tugged furiously at each other last week but did little more than leave millions of shareholders confused and wondering what would happen next...
...twelve grades; an $18 million stadium home for its first major league baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (who will move from Milwaukee at season's end); a $9,000,000 auditorium-exhibition hall complex; a $14.5 million freeway link between the downtown area and the airport (fifth busiest in the U.S.) that cuts driving time 23 minutes; 20,000 new jobs yearly since 1962, which is double what Allen was shooting for and has given Atlanta the lowest unemployment rate of any major U.S. city. Only his dream of a rapid-transit system is still unfulfilled...
...other changes that have recently been rung in Italy on the dissolubility of marriage, Hours is not trying to be funny so much as ruefully amusing. And it succeeds fairly well, thanks mostly to French Actress Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) and Ugo Tognazzi, one of Italy's busiest actors...