Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s decision [to split its stock] not only hit Wall Street like a bombshell, but it hit me the same way. All I've ever heard about A.T. & T. and New England T. & T. has been that they're losing money and rates have to go up. As a lifetime consumer, may I now expect a reduction in rates...
...last week with pleasant holiday duties, deep attention to annual ritual and as much time as he could get with his kinfolk. For the 7,500 people gathered near the south White House lawn to watch the Christmas tree lighting, Ike had a word that he hoped would be heard across the seas: "I again give my solemn word on behalf of the American people to all the peoples of the world: that the people of the U.S. and their Government do not want war. The U.S. has pledged its national honor to work for peace. For us this pledge...
...meticulous Alice Little, it turned out, had brought home more than sea shells and memories. Early in World War II, U.S. Naval Intelligence heard that she had lived in the west central Pacific, interviewed her. To the Navy's delight, Miss Little rooted out other items in her collections-maps, charts and the journals she carefully kept for the board of missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep...
Perhaps the best of Comden-Green is their quicksilver asides. In a take-off on 42nd Street flesh cinemas ("Doors open promptly at 3 a.m."), Doorkeeper Betty barks: "You've heard of Madame Pompadour, you've heard of Madame DuBarry. Now dig Madame Curie, the greatest madame of them all!" From their turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard...
...stability of the U.S. Within twelve months the Dow-Jones industrials went up 137.48 points from 435.69 to a historic high of 573.17 in the closing weeks of 1958; utilities jumped 20.42 points; rails soared 58.72 points. There were still skeptics who had seen such high-flying stocks and heard such talk of the new prosperity before-in 1929. But in 1929 the market was founded on fantasy, frenzy -and credit. In 1958 the Bull's flight to the moon was fueled almost entirely with cash, clear evidence of the investors' confidence in the U.S.'s economic...