Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight of the nine Councilmen are running for re-election, the exception being Hyman Pill, who is retiring. Councilor Charles Watson predicted that all eight would be re-elected and that Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler would be elected to fill Pill's seat. Alfred Vellucci said flatly, "I will be re-elected in a landslide...
...profits comparable to still generally rising sales volumes. Union Carbide Corp., for example, raised its sales 7% (from $331.3 million for the quarter to $355.5 million), but was able to eke out only a 1.2% increase in earnings (from $33.6 million to $34 million). Radio Corp. of America had nine-month sales of $853.7 million, 5% over 1956's alltime high, though profits rose only 2% (from $27.8 million to $28.3 million...
Despite below-capacity operation in many segments of the steel industry, Republic Steel raised its nine-month earnings 30%, for a record $73 million, and Inland Steel lifted its nine-month net to $43 million, 18% over 1955, its best previous year. Among the oil companies, hurt by overproduction, Socony Mobil and Shell Oil both reported profit dips. But Phillips Petroleum and Texas Co. reported 1957 profits ahead...
...first time in 21 years, Ford in 1957 headed the pack with a 45,000-car sales lead over Chevrolet at the eight-month mark. Ford earnings showed it: $229.5 million for 1957's first nine months v. $145.2 million last year. And Ford is determined to do even better...
...book is oddly reminiscent of BarChester Towers. Instead of Trollope's worldly clergy with fat cathedral livings. there are the Communist hierarchs of the "New Class." Instead of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, the cruel nonsense of dialectical truth provides the rules of the contest for place and power. Author Grinioff works the same novelist's magic as Trollope-the reader finds Communism hateful and absurd but still wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech...