Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SHARP PRICE CUTS are coming this year for high-grade beef. Ranchers, who held back their cattle last year to build up drought-depleted herds, have boosted cattle population to alltime high 97 million, are ready to bring them to market...
...Pitney-Bowes, Inc. P-B makes, sells, rents and services the postage metering machines* that print and postmark more than $1 billion worth of stamps on business mail every year. This not only saves millions in postal handling costs for the U.S., but it brings to P-B exceptionally high profits of 9? per revenue dollar. P-B announced this week that 1958 earnings rose 7% to $4.4 million on gross income of $51.3 million. P-B will split its stock three for one (current price: $92.50), boost the annual dividend rate from...
...high cost of growing into a 26,000-mile line with 17,000 employees and $57 million in yearly revenues, plus a 25-day pilot strike, drained T.W.A.'s finances. When Frye proposed a new stock issue to get cash, Hughes balked, fearing the dilution of his own interest in T.W.A., and the Hughes-Frye team cracked up in 1947. Jack Frye was out of a job. Always well connected with the Democrats in Washington, Frye got a political plum, the presidency (at $97,000 a year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased...
...Shall I tell about a couple of lovers and how it turned out that she was the newly appointed director of the factory where he was an unsatisfactory worker? We've had that ten times. Shall I tell how she, his beloved, attained high production levels, while he, her beloved, was still not up to . . .? I don't even want to finish thinking this to the end: we've had it a hundred times already...
...Waist-High Culture, by Thomas Griffith. A look at the U.S. cultural ledger and some of its misplaced values...