Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero crosses to Manhattan in a rowboat with an outboard motor, wanders half insane with loneliness and terror through the enormous canceled city. "I'm alive!" he screams, "I'm alive!" But by this time he has lost all hope that anybody else is. He takes up residence in a pleasant apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, begins to make the best of his mournful immense inheritance of culture and convenience...
Blood typing is not difficult if done carefully, and Dr. Moore found that most mismatched transfusions were caused not by technical errors but by simple human failures-mixing up specimen tubes, mislabeling and similar clerical errors. Worst of all, Dr. Moore charged that in more than half the cases with fatal reactions, the transfusion was not necessary or even desirable. Many physicians, he suggests, give one bottle to be on the safe side. One bottle is rarely, if ever, enough to do any good-but may easily be enough to do harm...
...took their annual look at the state of the U.S. economy. Their report was still another confirmation that the U.S. is in the early stages of a new boom. The businessmen thought that a steel strike might slow the economy's pace somewhat in 1959's second half, but not enough to take the zip out of industry-or prevent it from hitting new peaks in many important sectors...
...trust listed the market value of its stock at just half of what it had paid for it. M.I.T. slimmed its portfolio from 128 to 77 stocks, concentrated in defensive stocks (utilities, foods, tobacco, etc.), better able to withstand the Depression. By 1933 Robinson and his staff saw light ahead, and M.I.T. began switching out of defensive stocks and into railroads, automobiles, mining and steel. With a poker player's eye, Robinson could look at a company's present and guess its future. He personally researched the Texas Co. (now Texaco, Inc.), persuaded the trustees...
...contractual plan, under which a customer signs for regular monthly payments over a period of years (usually ten). The catch is that an investor who puts in $1,200 for the first year of a $100-a-month ten-year contractual plan is docked for about $500, or half the entire ten-year commission, in the first year. If the investor drops out in the first year, he loses most of his $500. The funds claim that this big "front-end load" is an incentive to steady saving, but some funds think that such juicy commissions are completely unjustified. Says...