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Word: growth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economic Growth: The U.S. should strive to attain an economic growth rate of 6% a year instead of the past decade's average of 3% a year. So far, Rockefeller has not explained just how that 6% goal might be reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rocky & the Issues | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...states registered a just-average 15%, the South lagged behind the national average with 13.5%, and the East lagged even further with just under 10%. Four states actually shrank in population during 1950-58: Arkansas, 8%; West Virginia, 2%; Vermont. 1.5%; Mississippi, 1%. Most striking exceptions to the slowish growth patterns of the East and South: Delaware's population expanded no less than 40% (rapid industrial growth drew in a lot of newcomers), Florida's a boom-sized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: California, Here They Come | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...National Council went on to a thoroughgoing endorsement of birth control, urging Protestant Episcopal citizens "to press through their governments, and through social, educational and international agencies, for measures aimed at relieving problems of population growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Birth-Control Debate | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...including autos, will rise 8% to 10% over 1959. Soft goods will rise 5%. Kellstadt said that a year ago he predicted this fall's retail business would be 5% better than last year. It turned out 7% better, so Sears is upping its own sights on sales growth next spring from 5% to 7% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Look Ahead | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Goal: More Growth. The Bakalar brothers run their three plants, which employ 4,300 workers, with an informal touch. In their rambling Wakefield, Mass, headquarters, which was once an underwear mill, the Bakalars share a secretary, avoid written memos, and do most of their business in corridor conferences with staff members. Decisions by Leo, 46, who serves as treasurer and chairman, and David, 34, who is president, have equal power. To justify the price of Transitron's stock (now selling at a steep 45 times projected 1960 earnings) the company is expected to diversify, use the 2.1 million shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Transistor Tycoons | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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