Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army (8-0-1)-threw away its conservative offense of past years, opened up with a "lonesome end," unbalanced line and a multifarious passing attack, capped its best year since 1949 by surviving newfangled Navy trickery for a workmanlike 22-6 victory in the annual interservice grudge match...
...Oklahoma (9-1)-was not quite up to great Sooner teams of the past, nonetheless came within a point of an unbeaten season (a 15-14 loss to Texas), dumped rugged Oklahoma State 7-0, looked forward to an Orange Bowl date with Syracuse New Year...
BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...
...textile business, as white and flat as a bedsheet for the past two years, last week showed signs of returning to health. Among the best indicators were textile share prices, which closed 50% above their 1958 lows. Since last spring, Burlington Industries has gone from 9½ to 14½, Dan River Mills from 9⅛ to 14⅛, M. Lowenstein & Sons from nf to 15, J. P. Stevens from...
...have textiles sagged during "normal" times? One reason is that the industry is a clutter of 500 manufacturers, many of them small, inefficient and hampered by outdated machinery. Though the industry invested $4.4 billion in new plants and equipment during the past decade, an estimated 65% of its machinery is still obsolete. Unlike the automobile or steel industry, the textile industry has no real giants to set the pace in modernization. The largest textile company, Burlington Mills (fiscal 1958 sales: $651 million), has only 5% of the industry sales. All the manufacturers are fiercely independent, have never joined...