Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a stretch of three weeks the senior class marks two separate ballots to elect its Permanent Class and Class Day Committees. The Permanent Class Committee interest is high and numerous petitions pour in, producing a healthy-sized ballot. But most seniors think the Class Day election is a place for classmates losing out in the earlier vote to try again, and for others afraid of the competition of the Permanent Committee election to sneak into class officialdom...
...faced a big job. Refugees still pour into West Berlin at a rate of more than 1,000 a day; in one day this week there were 3,500-an alltime high...
Along a bleak stretch of the southeastern shore of Alaska, the country is blanketed by parts of three glaciers. Heavy snows fall in winter; during the summer torrential rams pour down. In that spot last week, Phillips Petroleum Co. chose to go wildcatting for oil, the first major effort of a private company. Phillips' handsome chance-taking Chairman Kenneth Stanley ("Boots") Adams, 53, thinks it is a sporting proposition largely because signs of oil have been found there by seepages and in icebergs from the area. Under Adams Phillips has built a reputation in tne oil business...
...cardboard suitcases. Actually, they are scared, often hopeless people, and they come with nothing, for baggage in East Germany is a sign of flight or intent to flee-punishable offenses. Though the Communists methodically plug one exit after another into West Germany, 1,000 refugees a day now pour into West Berlin, and authorities expect the figure will eventually climb to as much...
...reliable measure of how good business is-and how good businessmen expect it to be in the new year-is the money earmarked for expansion. In the first quarter of 1953, SEC and the Commerce Department reported last week, businessmen expect to pour money into new plants and equipment at an annual rate of $28.7 billion v. an estimated rate of $28.3 billion in the current quarter. Every industry except transportation is planning to spend more money for expansion; public utilities and manufacturers will spend more than ever before...