Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journal's success story parallels the prodigious post-Depression growth of the business community, where stocks and bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone are worth some $382 billion today, v. $96 billion just two decades ago. Its high status is a far cry from its humble and parochial birth. Brainchild of three young men named Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones...
Although feeling that the growth of the new program may well be beneficial--"a monopoly isn't desirable in any field"--the Dean warned that there is a danger in asking schools to administer too many tests...
...small in big business terms, but it is significant in terms of growth and the new directions the presses are taking. Starting with the first U.S. press at Cornell in 1869, university publishers long concerned themselves solely with faculty books too abstruse or too specialized for commercial publishers. For years, they plodded along producing the dusty and dull, expanded only when the "publish or perish" dictum started influencing a scholar's status. Even then, the growth was slow...
...best sign of the long-range growth of the economy is the birth rate of new businesses. Last week there was plenty of evidence that the rate was the highest in U.S. history. Dun & Bradstreet reported that in August establishment of new business incorporations rose to 14,329 from 12,234 a year earlier. For the first eight months of 1959, new incorporations amounted to 133,891, almost a third ahead of the comparable period...
Despite the enormous growth of giant corporations, which pessimists predict will kill off small companies, the U.S. now has a third more independent businesses than it had at the end of World War II. They are growing faster than the population; the ratio of business enterprises to the general population is one-fifth higher than...