Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought we knew a few things about trade-union corruption," he said, "but we didn't know the half of it, one-tenth of it, or the one-hundredth part of it. We didn't know, for instance, that we had unions where a criminal record was almost a prerequisite to holding office under the national union. We didn't know that we had top trade-union leaders who made it a practice to secretly borrow the funds of their union...
...dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities Service, Ohio Oil, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey also posted new gains; Jersey Standard had an alltime record of $660 million for 1957's first nine months, 9½% better than...
THANKSGIVING TURKEYS this year will cost less than at any time since before World War II. Production will rise to record 80.6 million birds for 1957, and frozen stocks are 53% above a year ago. Manhattan supermarket sale prices...
TOURIST BOOM will bring record revenues this year for transatlantic airlines and shipping companies. From June through September, airlines lifted 459,500 passengers across Atlantic, about a 21% gain over same period of last year. During same peak 1957 season, steamships carried a near-capacity 496,000 passengers v. 481,000 in summer of 1956, and this September and October showed a 16% rise over last year...
...expansion that will add another 3,000,000 tons. As he stepped down, Beth Steel was in glowing health. While other makers operated at about 80% capacity, Bethlehem was pouring 91%. And for the first nine months, the company announced last week, Beth Steel's sales hit a record $2,002,000,000 while earnings also reached a new peak of $144 million...