Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After increasing alarmingly for a quarter-century, the death rate from leukemia in the North is leveling off, but is still rising rapidly in the South...
...After the drop they see a rise in output to an even higher level. Leading the way will be the 1960 auto model year that begins in October, and a capital-goods boom that is expected to run at the annual rate of $34 billion by the last quarter of this year...
...surprise, the first wave of midyear earnings last week showed that 1959's upsurge in profits, so striking in the first quarter, had picked up even greater momentum in the second. From companies across the broad spectrum of U.S. industry-most of them old-line firms showing new vitality-came the heartiest figures to grace many a balance book in years. Items...
JOHNS-MANVILLE. The building boom pushed company sales of materials up 17% over last year to a six-month record of $176 million, lifting earnings 71% to $1.80 a share. Said President A. R. Fisher: Earnings and sales were "substantially greater than in any quarter or half-year in the company's history...
ALLIED CHEMICAL. President Glen B. Miller reported that the company's performance in the second quarter was the best on record, with sales up to $203 million from last year's $166 million and profits up nearly 100%, to $1.67 a share...