Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ending June 13 were 3% over last year, despite a sales-crippling newspaper strike in St. Louis. Fairchild News Service's own survey, covering specialty shops as well as department stores, showed a sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus: the U.S. woman does not want novelties or revolutionary, untested style changes that...
...conflicting claims surrounding the steel negotiations, President Eisenhower last week considered having the Government prepare its own "impartial" statistics for the public's guidance. But the Labor Department and other Government agencies quickly let it be known that they wanted no part of the job. Reason: they know that even statistics on such an apparently simple factor as productivity are open to wide interpretation. No matter what figures the Government settled on, federal economists feel, they would favor one side or the other, add heat rather than light to the debate between management and labor. Said a Government labor...
...last 13. ∙ Industry insists that workers do not deserve a raise because their wages have already outrun gains in productivity, which the industry calculates has risen at an annual rate of 1.5% a year since 1940. The union disputes this by using a productivity figure of 3.2%. The reason for the difference is that management uses steel shipments per man-hour to arrive at its figure and the union uses output per man-hour, while each selects productivity figures over different periods. This is just the sort of thing that caused Government agencies to shy away from choosing...
...Share. It also gets a prime profitmaker. Though Superior's $1,825 per-share purchase price seems very high (46 times earnings), Texaco knows that the reason is due to a curious bookkeeping quirk. Superior charges off all drilling costs in one year against overall earnings, rather than amortizing such capital expenses against individual properties over a period of years. By shifting to standard accounting, the net per share would double, and the price-earnings ratio drop to about...
Richard Easton's Romeo is unevenly effective. He has on previous occasions shown great skill with smaller roles, especially comic ones (his Puck last summer was tops). But Romeo marks his first traversal of a long, serious part for the Festival; and there is no reason to expect it to be definitive yet. He clearly has a fine Romeo within him, though. His diction is clear. He has no trouble making Romeo young enough--and young he must be: Romeo matures a little during the play's course, but he never does become a man. At present, however, Easton...