Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIFE-INSURANCE boom is stalled by recession. First-half sales fell 3% below last year...
Struggle for Survival. Like the Taft family that owned it, Cincinnati's Times-Star for generations had been an institution: sober, solid and solvent. The Times and Star were merged in 1880 by Charles Phelps Taft, half brother of William Howard Taft. In the 1930s and '40s, the ruggedly Republican afternoon daily vigorously backed Senator Robert A. Taft (who inherited a 5% share of the stock), reportedly earned as much as $1,000,000 a year. Through World War II, the Times-Star generally outhustled Scripps-Howard's competing afternoon Post...
...like to see something in earth money." During the one month that the ad ran on radio, the bank reported that time-plan loans were up 33%. One Salt Lake City station was so impressed with Freberg's words and music that it put on a half-hour show consisting of nothing but Freberg commercials...
...good works, the E.I.D.C. group really started operating. Belle and his friends acquired control of Cornucopia Gold Mines, Inc., which owned a worked-out Oregon claim that had only one visible worth-a listing on the American Stock Exchange-planned to use Cornucopia as a holding company "shell" for half a dozen small subsidiaries (claimed 1956 sales: $5,200,000) that it had located and had taken options...
Cocktail Time ("A Novel about a Novel"), the latest of Wodehouse's 76 books, shares with its predecessors the Wodehousian characteristic of being strictly up to date in time and half a century behind in taste. Its characters display, as always, what Essayist John W. Aldridge calls ''the miraculous capacity of the human body to operate without the assistance of any mental powers whatever." Among the 15-odd starters...