Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sale puts American Airlines a big jump ahead of its competitors in disposing of its piston fleet (now more than half sold); it also makes Fred Ayer, president and sole owner of his firm, easily the world's biggest aircraft dealer, puts him in a commanding position to cash in on the used-plane market. Since September, he has bought 80 big planes (47 DC-6s, 33 Convairs) from jet-converting U.S. airlines. He has sold or leased ten of the eleven Convairs that have already been delivered, has buyers from small airlines or corporations for 40 more planes...
Army has three good broad jumpers, headed by Phil Chappell, and a 6 ft., 6in. high jumper in Gary LaBorne. The varsity will be exceptionally lucky to score in the broad jump, but an improving John deKiewiet could give the Cadets some trouble in the high jump...
...team's jack-of-all trades is Beckwith, who excels in the high jump, broad jump, and both hurdle races. Hampered by a muscle pull during most of the winter, he should return to form this spring...
Stan Greenspan in the discus, Tom Corbin in the hammer, javelin, and shot, and John Jeppson in the discus and shot will support Bailey in the weight events. Dean Alpine, a potential six-foot jumper, should add points in the high jump. The broad jump, behind Beckwith, and the pole vault are weak...
From the Council of Economic Advisers came a report confirming what most businessmen suspected: profits are back to prerecession levels, and climbing. At $21.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 1958, after-tax profits showed a $3 billion jump from the third quarter; undistributed profits, or the money companies still have after taxes, dividends, etc., were up to $9.8 billion, the highest level since the first quarter of boom year 1957. The high profit level, plus the assurance of a fine first-quarter report for 1959, gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling...