Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whisked through his day in a whirl of callers and scribbled memos, got through work at a rate never before seen in the musty old palace. In two three-hour periods he managed to get in 151 individual interviews. (Grumbled one Ecuadorian: "I didn't have time even to greet him properly.") At 1:30 he passed up Ecuador's hearty midday meal, raided an office icebox for sandwiches and milk straight from one of his own farms, then got to work again. "What, no siesta?" exclaimed incredulous Ecuadorians...
...than those of other food processors. After paying its first common dividend in ten years in the first quarter of the year, Armour decided not to pay a dividend this summer. Said Armour's Board Chairman George A. Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing shares on the New York Stock Exchange to their year...
Retail Record. U.S. retail sales are running at an annual rate of $127 billion, almost 12% higher than 1947, the National Industrial Conference Board reported. If the rate is maintained, said N.I.C.B., 1948 sales will exceed 1929-the prewar peak-by more than 250%, while prices are only 40% higher than...
Their sentiments were echoed by New England officials who have long been alarmed at the rate the textile industry is moving away, chiefly to the South. In Washington, the Senate Small Business Committee ordered an investigation...
Here's something that's universal. One-hundred percent of you will have ice cream for dessert about eleven times a week. It's because a rich alumnus established a fund for buying ice cream once upon a time. (This really happened, I'm told). At any rate, it's usually deliciously flavorsome and creamy rich...