Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...select groups of constituents. Among the measures that might otherwise have been important the House action often came too late to have much current meaning, e.g., the House held up the natural gas regulation bill for months, then passed it at the last moment by a six-vote margin. Then the House leadership was indignant because the Senate decided it had not received the bill in time to act on it this year (Speaker Sam Rayburn kept sending angry little notes to the Senate leaders about the bill...
...yields are immense: 200 crates per acre of sweet corn, each crate holding five dozen ears, and tomatoes that net a steady $500-a-year-profit per acre. On his relatively small ranch he grosses $100,000 a year. "In a good year," says Rancher Sakemi, "my profit margin has hit as much...
...watch; only he would be able to record just how close his skipper was keeping to his estimates. If all went well, if navigational skill was equal to predicted-log equations, every boat would churn past the finish line at Block Island at exactly 7 p.m. The time-measured margin of error (including the error at each control point) would determine the winner...
...investors appear to be buying for growth instead of dividends, brokers are beginning to doubt if narrowing yields mean much in the current market. As a further sign of strength, in three out of the last four weeks, bank loans to brokers in New York City for buying on margin have declined. Thus, despite the recent fast rise in the market, the amount of buying on credit has actually declined...
...million mark for the first time in history. Employment jumped 1,313,000 to a total 64,016,000, or 325,000 more than the previous peak (August 1953). Overtime pay is running at the highest level in history, while factory hirings top layoffs by the greatest margin since...