Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present-day editors are no longer as sure as they (and their fathers) were that they know what news is. In the past 15 years, the outlines of the definition have both blurred and broadened...
Despite rising costs, woolen fabric makers were talking price cuts; clothing manufacturers, whose goods were not moving well at the present high prices, had cut back orders. Cotton cloth prices were already down; grey (unfinished) goods were back almost to 1946 OPA levels...
Stunted Growth. Slichter maintained that corporate profits should be even higher. The only way to tell whether profits are excessive, he held, is "the community's [need] for expanded output and productive capacity." That need Slichter assessed at $70 billion "at present prices." To cut corporate profits now, he implied, would stunt the country's economic growth...
...Boeing Stratocruisers; American Airlines, which lost $3,900,000 in nine months this year, might have trouble raising cash for the planes in addition to financing its own domestic operations. Under the deal, American Airlines would probably get about $7,780,000 worth of Pan Am stock (at the present market value of American Overseas stock...
Transcontinental hopes to deliver 340 million cu. ft. of gas a day, at a cost of approximately 31? per 1,000 cu. ft. This is so far below the present cost of manufactured gas in New York that nine utility companies in the metropolitan area have already signed up as customers...