Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British artist. He volunteered for duty with the U.S. Navy, but his ensign's commission did not come through until after the Armistice. He gave up teaching and went to work for Lloyds Bank in London. Friends think that, had he stayed in the City, he might have risen to be a director of the Bank of England. (Later, he gave up his bank job to join the publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, now Faber & Faber...
...such B.B.D. & O. perennials as U.S. Steel Corp., Du Pont and General Electric. In six years, the agency had added a cool $50 million to its billings, more than doubled its business. B.B.D. &O. reports no gross revenue, but based on the usual 15% commission, its gross had risen to about $12 million a year...
EARNINGS Green Fingers Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s President Gwilym A. Price reported with a grin last week that although his company's sales had dropped last year from $970 million to $945 million, his net had risen to a new alltime peak of $67 million, a thumping 18% above 1948. Price's explanation: "More efficient manufacturing facilities . . . operating economies, and excellent teamwork...
...trouble is the high cost of a Harvard education. Like almost every other item on the market today, this popular commodity now costs one half again as much as it did ten years ago. Tuition was then $400. Now it is $600. In an equal ratio with tuition have risen all the travel and living expenses associated with a College career. It now costs a man $1,600 or $1,700 a year to come to Harvard from Chicago according to the Assistant to the Provost, while ten years ago the Chicago student could...
...exporters worried last fall that devaluation abroad would lose them foreign markets by boosting the price of exported U.S. goods. Last week the International Monetary Fund confirmed the exporters' fears about prices: they have risen an average of 16.1%. But the quantity of exports changed little in the first three months after devaluation. Reported the Commerce Department: after two months' decline, U.S. exports rose 13% in December to $942,800,000, the highest in six months. Nevertheless, the department expects exports to drop at least $1 billion, or 8%, this year...