Word: half
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Steel mills were producing at a scheduled 74.8% of capacity, a new high for the year and more than half a point above the previous week. Prospect for the fourth quarter: 85% of capacity...
...Pittsburgh (4-1-1)-contained Army's offense (statistically the nation's best), dominated the second half with a wide-open attack...
...attainable. There is no reason to believe that Columbia cannot follow this course and prosper." But the second, he states bluntly, offers Columbia "the opportunity of becoming the most distinctive and, if successful, the most distinguished undergraduate college in the United States." Screening would be harsh; only the top half of the 2,400 students now in the college would qualify for admission under the proposed system. Says Educator Chamberlain: "Preference should be given to the applicant who has completed, prior to entrance, four years of mathematics and science, who can read a foreign language, and whose command of English...
...slump in U.S. foreign trade during the first half of 1958 now appears to be leveling off, reported the Commerce Department. Trade with Latin America may be headed for the highest rate of any year except...
...surprises of the recession was the steel industry's ability to operate at less than half capacity and still turn a profit. The chief reason for steel's sturdiness was a widespread modernization program, which cut industry costs and made production more efficient. Few firms benefited more handsomely from that policy than the nation's 17th-largest steel producer, a perky little maverick named Granite City Steel Co., located in Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. While the industry is back to about 75% of capacity, Granite City Steel this week is humming along...