Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total of 3,389,000 throughout the U.S. The improvement cut the overall percentage of jobless to 4.9% of the labor force for the first time since the early stages of the recession. Just as impressive, employment jumped 1,000,000 to 66 million, new alltime high for the month...
...selling aluminum as fast as we can make it." Production at Aluminum Co. of America and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. was also rising, bringing the industry to 90% of its 2,300,000 tons primary capacity. Preliminary figures indicate that May production hit an alltime monthly high of 164,000 tons, and makers are confident that 1959 will be a record year, about 20% over...
While the new uses of aluminum will bring record production and sales this year, it is unlikely that earnings will follow-even though the stocks of aluminum companies have hopefully risen to the year's high. Producers say that the price of aluminum at 24.7?a Ib. is too low. Although a price rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets...
FORD THUNDERBIRDS are flying high with output at 50,000 thus far in model year v. 37,900 for entire 1958 model year. Despite full production at rate 80% higher than last year, T-Bird backlog is more than 7,000 cars...
...since Thomas Edison." The pencil-shaped tube lasts twice as long and is one two-hundredth the size of a standard industrial lighting lamp, does not grow dim throughout its life. Iodine vapor in the bulb prevents the formation of blackening carbon on the inside; the lamp's high operating temperature incinerates dirt that touches the outside. Because of their small size, the new lamps can be used to throw exact lighting patterns for show windows, building facades, sports fields, airports. They will permit development of smaller, more effective lighting fixtures, are cheaper to operate...