Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
CHEMICAL EXPANSION will hit record $853 million in second half of 1956, swell year's production to $1.5 billion, or 48% more than 1955. Output capacity of polyethylene plastic alone will jump next year to 900 million Ibs. annually from present 600 million...
Small businessmen, who find it hard to raise stock market capital, also complain that they are being hit hardest by the credit pinch. Bankers dispute this, point out that business loans of under $100,000 are running 14% ahead of last year. The Small Business Administration in the first six months of 1956 approved more than $165 million in loans to small businessmen, twice the volume for first-half...
With the move to the suburbs, more leisure and bigger families, so many Americans are driving station wagons that production this year will hit 471,000 cars -11% of the total auto market. So far, Ford has captured over 40% of the market with 268,712 wagons in 1956. Now G.M. is getting set to make its big push. Oldsmobile is scheduling 10% of its production in station wagons; Pontiac hopes to sell 64,000, and Buick expects to add another 65,000-about 10% of its production-to the totals...
...some models. Buick's engines will go up another 45 h.p. to 300 h.p. on all models except the low-priced Special series, which gets a 25-h.p. boost to 255 h.p. One new gadget: a "safety minder" buzzer, which can be set to remind drivers when they hit the speed limit...