Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commerce reported that personal income reached a record annual rate of $336.7 billion in February, forecast even fatter pay envelopes ahead for the nation's workers. Starting off the seasonal spring rise, employment rose to 63,865,000 to set a record for March. Retail sales were holding firm, and production was expected to hold its record 1956 pace...
President Pedro Aramburu. who took power by force but refuses to be a dictator, coaxed and head-knocked his Cabinet past a double crisis last week, and sailed ahead with his plan to hold democratic elections for a successor...
...ancient pagan religion of Babylonia managed to hold out in a single city for 1,500 years after Babylonia fell. Visiting the U.S. last week, British Archaeologist David Storm Rice told how he rummaged in the almost unexplored ruins of Harran in southern Turkey. Harran was a thriving Moslem city until it was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century A.D., but Dr. Rice's interest goes back to 2000 B.C., when Harran was a famous center of worship of the long-bearded moon-god, Sin, giver of light and wisdom. Harran was also visited by Abraham...
Alongside such oldtime giants as General Electric and Radio Corp. of America, Texas Instruments Inc. is a lusty newcomer in the U.S. electronics industry. But it can hold its own in any competition. Launched in electronics at the close of World War II, the Dallas company by 1954 was a major military producer of germanium transistors as tiny substitutes for standard electronic tubes. Soon after, it produced an even better silicon transistor for military use, then swept into civilian markets with its germanium transistor for the fast-growing pocket-radio and industrial-computer fields. Last week Texins set its sights...
...NEVER say a good word about my secretary outside the office," says a Chicago lawyer. "If I did, somebody else would have her on his payroll tomorrow." To many U.S. businessmen such caution is normal. Though a record 21 million U.S. women are working, only about 2 million hold secretarial jobs-and only a small percentage are genuine secretaries. As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250,000 secretarial jobs go begging every day. "We just need bodies," moans a Midwest employment agent. "There haven't been enough secretaries, or even file clerks...