Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much Cash? Wall Street's financial experts criticize the tendency of Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price a onetime banker, to hang onto the company cash instead of putting it to work to earn more cash. Westinghouse has a larger cash reserve ($344 million) than G.E ($307 million), which does twice as much business. While loaded with cash, Westinghouse has been borrowing for expansion, now has a debt of $325 million, G.E. has none...
...Council, in submitting the figures, expressed the desirability of holding another poll later in the season when police pressure will have lessened and a larger number of replies could be solicited...
...running, was the guest of honor at a big political rally in his own back yard at Albany. At that rally Harry Truman, who said he was not ready to announce his choice, slyly intimated that he liked Ave better than he liked Adlai. With that, Averell Harriman loomed larger than ever on the Democratic horizon...
Productivity. "We have productivity," he said. "Our rate of productivity is the greatest in history, now estimated at nearly $400 billion a year. The magnitude of that can be appreciated when it is noted that it is three times that of the Soviet Union with its much larger population. It is the result of free choice. No governmental decree forces men and women into work that is repugnant to them. And because people do work that they like, they strive to excel, and so become competitive and more productive...
Burns cited other elements of strength: "Although the nation's business is significantly larger than at the peak of 1953, inventory holdings are smaller. Despite the extensive [housing] boom, vacancies now available fall short of the reserve that people need...