Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Montanan . . . I was thrilled to see your recent pictures and article. Regardless of the cost, the Lewis & Clark expedition was a huge success. Recent discovery of records of the expedition . . . reveals the cost of the enterprise to be considerably higher than the oft-quoted "$2,500," an amount that actually represents only the initial appropriation by Congress...
...increase was not on a "trickledown" from the top basis. One of the biggest jumps was in consumer spending, where the reading rose $6 billion above the rate of the preceding three-month period. Higher wage and salary payments gave spending its biggest push, aided by a $1 billion drop in the rate of savings...
...well off financially is the modern U.S. teacher compared to his counterpart in 1904 or 1929? Last week, in a special report, the Fund for the Advancement of Education gave an answer: the higher his rank, the worse off the teacher...
...Pont. In chemicals and mining, Union Carbide, Du Pont and National Gypsum all reported banner sales and earnings. At Union Carbide, President Morse G. Dial listed alltime record sales of $857 million, record earnings of $101 million for the first nine months, 60% higher than 1954. Du Pont hit new peaks with sales of $1.4 billion, earnings of $6.24 a share at the three-quarter mark v. $4.74 last year. In the booming electronics industry, civilian sales were so good that General Electric President Ralph J. Cordiner could announce the second-best year in history thus far-sales...
...years: President James M. Symes totaled the nine-month revenue at $690 million, with a $32 million net that was a whopping 172% better than 1954, Crucible Steel did even better in the percentage race, with nine-month sales of $172 million, a $9,000,000 profit, 434% higher than last year's poor earnings. Eastman Kodak President Albert K. Chapman showed a pretty picture to stockholders: he reported new highs in sales and earnings, with a volume of $487 million, up 13%, earnings of $58 million, up 24% over last year. Other record breakers: United Air Lines, with...