Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists attack again in Korea, they will probably not be satisfied with another "human sea" offensive, the last two of which failed so miserably. In the past month, the pace of their buildup, which has been going on all summer, has increased, in spite of allied air attacks on their bridges, rail lines and road transport. They now have 500 or more tanks -more than the North Koreans had at the start of the war - and 1,000-plus planes, some of them bought by "popular subscription" (i.e., forced collection) among Red China's people. In Korea, they...
...peak of the 1929 boom, sold for 101 (adjusted for stock splits), which was 43 times its earnings. Last week it closed at 595/8 (60% of its 1929 price), which was a mere 12 times its earnings. In most cases, industry's sales and profits have kept pace with the rising stock prices. Thus, despite a 65% gain in the industrial average since mid-1949, the ratio of prices to earnings is only about 20% higher now than it was two years...
...squeeze of credit restrictions and materials shortages. He had to cut his 1951 output of low-priced houses to 2,500, compared to 5,333 last year, and abandon altogether his "Landia" project for 1,750 homes in the $13,000 class. To get started again at the pace he and his brother Al need for their cost-cutting methods, Bill Levitt has been roaming the U.S. looking for a big, new site in a critical defense area. Last week he announced that he had found one in the southern part of Bucks
Truth in the Night is quiet and grave in pace. It will never shoot to the top of the bestseller list, but it will please a lot of people who find their...
Said the London Times in summary: "Mr. Mitropoulos [gave] a performance of Beethoven's fourth symphony which could only be described as hateful ... The finale was taken at such a pace that a public reconciliation between the conductor and the bassoonist after it was over was certainly called for. But after we had been shown in Beethoven what the visitors could not do, we had an exhibition ... of what they could do ... We must needs be grateful...