Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when the vicar tells...
...Steel furnaces continued operating at a record level. Last week steel production was scheduled at 93.2% of capacity...
Shouted Down. Where the U.S. consumer reigns, the gains were most striking. U.S. smokers, puffing away at a record rate, upped both sales and profits of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) and P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold), both of whose stockholders approved stock splits to make room for further growth. When a stockholder tried to ask a few critical questions of Reynolds Chairman John C. Whitaker, other stockholders were already so taken with the good news that they stamped their feet, shouted the dissenter down...
Rebounding from a first-quarter loss last year, United Air Lines announced that it will show a profit this year on the basis of "record revenues." Said President W. A. Patterson: "The unprecedented traffic was partly due to the improvement in economic conditions generally and the gradually heavier use of air travel for business reasons...
After a quick study of the management proposal, McDonald replied: "I reject it out of hand." He accused the companies of a "publicity stunt," said, "Before the month is out [the industry] will be embarrassed by record riches which it can neither explain nor conceal...