Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mothers who cannot get over "that tired feeling," and complain that their doctors are no help, won sympathy in an unexpected quarter last week. At an Atlantic City meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, amid such topics as pelvic surgery and total body sodium, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Leonard Lovshin flashed a picture on the screen, explained: "We have here a tired mother. She is not sick-she is tired. She is not maladjusted-she is pooped...
...boards are quietly ablaze with initial letters of decorations awarded new curates and vicars in their old careers. At last month's meeting of the Anglican selection board for ministerial training, the only two candidates over 40 were army majors; at the R.A.F. Chaplain's School, a quarter of the 125 candidates for ordination are senior officers...
...earnings for 1959 will reach a new high, barring a steel strike or a similar calamity." So said National Steel's Chairman George M. Humphrey, former Secretary of the Treasury, as he announced last week that National's first-quarter earnings were "three or four times larger than the first quarter of last year," when they were 51? a share. Many a U.S. businessman echoed George Humphrey. The first wave of anxiously awaited first-quarter earnings proved higher than almost anyone had expected. The week's most general prediction for the nation's business: "The best...
...telephoned with such enthusiasm in the first quarter that it helped American Telephone & Telegraph raise its per-share earnings from $2.76 last year to $2.81. The Bell System, announced President Fred Kappel, added about 725,000 new telephones in the quarter, 66% more than in the first three months of 1958. The telegraph wires were also humming; Western Union announced a first-quarter profit of 55? a share...
Beauty & Food. The hard-hit appliance industry came back in strength. Earnings of Whirlpool Corp. were up sharply from last year's 29^ a share to 80^. With sales up 12% in the first quarter, Borg-Warner Corp.'s President Robert S. Ingersoll announced a 45% hike in earnings, noted that Borg-Warner has "a very substantial portion" of the parts orders for the Ford and General Motors small cars. Admiral Corp., reported a profit on a sales rise of 15%. Said President Ross D. Siragusa: "All the bad things are behind...