Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RECORD FLIGHT across U.S. was set in trial run by American Airlines' first Boeing 707 jetliner in preparation for regular runs which begin in January. Los Angeles-New York time: 4 hrs. 43 min. At average 630 m.p.h., jet shaved the previously prevailing commercial piston-plane time by three hours...
...supported Balderston's fear of a credit burst. Consumer credit has held fairly steady this year (see chart), as consumers cautiously kept from stepping up credit buying. Furthermore, payoffs have been good; the Veterans Administration reported last week that veterans holding G.I. home loans have set a "remarkable" record by paying off some $11 billion in home mortgage debts...
...managed to hold down the cost of expansion to $67 a ton, v. up to $150 for other steel companies that had similar programs. While other firms laid off workers during the recession. Granite City Steel increased its labor forces from 4,943 a year ago to a record 5,050 today. During the first half of 1958. when the industry was down to 54% of capacity, Granite City ran at 86%. After rolling up the highest earnings as a percent of sales among the first 17 steelmakers in 1955, and the second-highest in 1956 and 1957, Granite City...
...four speakers at a symposium sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room were W. Elliot Norton '26 of the Boston Record, Lyon Phelps '46 of the Boston Herald, Henry Popkin of the Kenyon Review, and Gavin Scott '58-4 of the CRIMSON. Gaynor F. Bradish '52, instructor in English, moderated the panel...
...Phillips Brooks House Association blood drive is rapidly assuming record proportions, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, president of the Association, announced yesterday...