Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Bob Bowditch put the Crimson ahead on a jump shot at the outset of the extra period, Bruins Dave Reed, Cliff Ehrlich, John Dellavance, and Al Diussa put the home side in front for good. The varsity fought hard to catch up, but Brown managed to hold the five point lead until the final buzzer...
...shortage, Bombay alone has 225 producers, including Actress Madhubala, 25. Unlike Madhubala's secure stardom, her role as a producer is fraught with peril. An Indian producer can afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only about 8% remains before...
...CORPORATE PROFITS will jump to $21.5 billion, up a full 20% from 1958's estimated $17.8 billion and just a shade below $21.8 billion of 1957, predicts National Securities & Research Corp., one of leading mutual funds (assets: more than $400 million...
...reason for the spurt was Northwest's 15% jump in domestic passenger mileage, second highest increase in the industry (after Northeast, which rose 65% on the wings of its new Miami routes). Nyrop did it by selling off eight of the aged, unpressurized DC-3s in Northwest's fleet, bringing in 24 DC-6Bs and DC-7Cs in the past two years...
...might be guessed, British Author Pamela Frankau, 50, belongs to the Eliza-crossing-the-ice school of fiction: the narrative floe consists in keeping the characters' daydream life one jump ahead of baying reality. She succeeds; artifice mimics art, animation apes life, but the entertainment, most of the time, is real...