Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerly the U.S. consumer greets an exciting new product was witnessed by Chicago's Motorola Inc., one of the first to jump into the market for stereophonic phonographs in 1958. The company put on sale a portable stereo set priced at $159.95, hoped to sell 8,000 units by Christmas. Actual total: 72,000 sets. Next year Motorola will spend $12 million on advertising its products, and thinks that stereo, which can run to $5,000 a set, may turn into as big a bonanza...
...Electronics will do better still, says Motorola Executive Vice President Edward R. Taylor, who forecasts a 13% gain in TV sets, another 9% gain in radios. Biggest jump: the new stereophonic sets, which will climb from 750,000 units in '58 to better than 3,000,000 next year...
...rise in U.S. production, steadily picking up speed, in November made its greatest jump of the last five months. Industrial production, reported the Federal Reserve Board last week, rose three points to 141% of the 1947-49 average, was within four points of its pre-recession peak of August 1957, and two points above a year ago. The rise was largely due to a jump in auto production, which, despite a strike at Chrysler (see below), last week reached 142,609 cars...
...when Joel Landau established new meet and Briggs Cage marks with a 5.2 sec. effort. High jumper Kelvin Kean missed equaling the meet standard in his event with a 6 ft., 3 in leap. The varsity also fared well in other field events, with Pat Liles winning the broad jump...
John Thomas of B.U. was the star of the Freshman meet, setting a meet record in the hurdles with a 5.3 sec. clocking, and establishing new meet, B.U., and Briggs Cage marks with an astounding 6 ft., 8 7/8 in. high jump. Yardling Ed Bailey passed the old meet standard in the weight throw, and the '62 mile relay unit bettered the existing mark by .5 sec. to complete the evening's record smashing...