Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took political courage for Kubitschek to make the switch. Alkmim's policy of holding coffee off the market to exact higher prices succeeded mostly in giving the market to other coffee-producing countries, but it had great chauvinistic appeal to the powerful leftist nationalists. Lopes, 47, believes that heavy investment of foreign private capital is needed to boost per capita income. At the present rate of production growth, he says, "it would take slightly more than 20 years to reach the $400 per capita income level...
...minutes) for strife-torn Beirut. Lumbering into the Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide, who refused to disturb Ambassador George Middleton. Schemes agley, Randolph Churchill ordered a seat on a London-bound plane leaving within the hour, gave his thought...
Trace of Blue. The Belingwe gems are fine quality stones whose price on the world market will probably be higher than that of diamonds per carat of weight. A slight trace of blue in the gems (caused, says Contat, by "a needle-like inclusion of amphibole in the crystalline structure") may make them unique among emeralds. So far, few of the Belingwe gems have reached the jewel marts. The prospectors and the Southern Rhodesian government are aware that the world emerald market is small and extremely sensitive, and therefore will dole out the gems slowly to keep prices high...
...supply instead of the 90-day supply they might have carried a few years ago. Manufacturers are doing the same. Steel customers are buying more of their steel from warehouses instead of directly from the mills, even though prices are as much as 30% higher, because the customer can save money in processing and storing costs. Small inventory is another byproduct of recession, but any real upsurge in sales would send businessmen scrambling to the producers for more goods...
Though they are in the minority, the bears are sticking to their thesis that the current market rise is only temporary. "Current stock prices are higher in relation to earnings than at any time since 1946," said Harry D. Comer, chief of research for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. "What the stock market is going on is a large amount of hope...