Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court Mindszenty again & again declared he was sorry for what he had done. When he admitted receiving dollar donations from abroad, and letting his subordinates sell them on the black market, he said: "I am sorry. I wish to repay the damage done to the Hungarian state...
...free from the pressure of too many students? At least one institution, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology, thought so. In the last year, reported Chairman of Admissions John M. Daniels, Carnegie's enrollment applications had dropped 40%. Said he: "It is a 'buyer's market from now on, and those colleges which insist on top-ranking students are going to have to go out and compete for them as we did in prewar years . . . The honeymoon is over...
...Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
...Waldorf-Astoria had served in years. Near the tea cozies, where U.S. newsmen juggled their cups a bit awkwardly, stood three new 1949-model Morris cars. Peppery Viscount Nuffield, Britain's biggest motormaker, had sent them over by the Queen Mary as an opening bid for the U.S. market and as an answer to an old antagonist...
...while Nuffield was still honking along with cars made from prewar dies, Lord rolled out a spanking new, postwar-model Austin for the U.S. and Canadian market. Last year he sold $22 million worth in the U.S. and Canada. Nuffield had to content himself with selling his prewar cars in the Empire and soft-currency areas in Europe, while he changed over to his postwar models...