Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of all concessions, Barnet hit the spot, and within a year was twice promoted to veep in charge of national sales, then to vice president in charge of domestic operations. In 1954 he became executive vice president. Under Steele and Barnet, Pepsi's earnings have risen from $1,618,744 m 1950 (when Steele took over) to a 1954 net of $6,212,690. In 1955's first quarter, Pepsi and foreign subsidiaries reported a 100% increase in earnings (to $1,170,000) over the same period last year...
Fancy new all-year resorts, surrounded by high-priced desert estates, have risen in California's Apple Valley, along the 30-mile-long Salton Sea (239 feet below sea level) and at Arizona's Scottsdale and Paradise Valley near Phoenix. New housing subdivisions have mushroomed into the desert at Palmdale, Lancaster, Hesperia and Lucerne Valley in the Mojave, at Indio, Coachella and Twentynine Palms in the Colorado Desert, across the floor of the Las Vegas Valley and out for miles on all sides of Tucson and Phoenix...
This is the place to which this tormented, restless man of intellect and of action has come in his quest through the godless pantheon of the Enlightenment. To André Malraux, man's hope, often betrayed, always risen again, is still in man. It is a gallant position, but perilously exposed, and Malraux seems to know it. "The next century's task will be." says Malraux, "to rediscover its gods...
Slump in the Summer. Meanwhile, summer replacement shows were working on the theory that entertainment should be as much fun in hot weather as in cold (TIME, June 27). Unhappily, not a single summer show, including two NBC one-shot Spectaculars (Remember-1938 and Allen in Homeland), has yet risen above a depressingly low level of mediocrity...
...from Astronomer Walter Baade of Mt. Wilson and Palomar, who computed the phase and position of the moon at the time when the supernova could first have been seen in Arizona. The answer came out right. The moon was a crescent, as drawn. In northern Arizona it would have risen shortly before dawn on July 5th, and the supernova would have been close to it. The sight must have been striking; the supernova was probably the brightest object, other than the sun, ever to be seen by historic...