Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toohy said that over the past two weeks approximately six thefts had been reported from unlocked rooms while the occupants were asleep. He said that persons from outside the University were suspected...
There was even renewed talk on both sides of the Atlantic of a flight from the dollar. Behind these wild exaggerations was some sober fact. In the past three weeks U.S. Treasury gold stocks have declined $176 million, a greater gold outgo than occurred in the entire first quarter. Coming after a drop of $2.3 billion in 1958-the sharpest one-year decline in history-the renewed flow of U.S. gold to foreign nations brought Treasury gold holdings to $20,255,000,000, the lowest level in 13 years...
Sales of room air conditioners generally follow the thermometer. The past two summers were cool, and the industry's sales were slow, sliding along at roughly the 1956 level of $3.2 billion. This season is shaping up as the hottest in the industry's 57-year history. Carrier Corp., the industry's Goliath (total 1958 sales: $252.5 million), is selling room units 32% ahead of last year, and Fedders Corp., biggest seller of room units (fiscal 1958: $53.9 million), is running 10% ahead in shipments. In March alone, Westinghouse, which has air-conditioned everything from President Eisenhower...
...ever because they have weathered a vigorous shakeout. A few years ago there were 100 manufacturers. Scores dropped out, including Servel, Vornado, International Harvester. Each victim left behind a heavy inventory, which went at fire-sale prices. Now inventories are down to the bone, and the price wars are past...
When Benjamin and Fitzgerald rushed past Yale's Jim Wade with only 150 yards to go, it seemed as though Giegengack's strategy had failed. But Slowik came from far back and won by two yards...