Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from $268 million to $550 million; profits rose from $9,000,000 to a peak of $27,500,000, before being nipped by the excess-profits tax. (In the first three quarters of 1952, hit by E.P.T. and the steel strike, net was $9,000,000.) Studebaker stock has risen from $18 to $41. Like everyone else, Studebaker has been pinched by metal allocations. When all controls are off and defense work diminishes, Vance expects to turn out 520,000 cars a year, 150% more than current production, and get 8% of all auto sales within the next five years...
...production hit 109 million metric tons in 1952. an alltime peak, the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe reported last week. Western Europe turned out nearly 58% of that amount. However, the Iron Curtain lands are coming up fast; in 1952 their production is said to have risen 14%, while the West's rose 8%. Britain, with 16.4 million metric tons, is still the largest steel producer in Western Europe, and gained nearly a million metric tons. Together, the U.S. (85 million metric tons in 1952) and Western Europe outproduce Russia and her satellites...
...unusual demand, 15 per cent more than previous exam periods, was due to a shortened reading period," continued McNiff. He said that there had been no increase in books taken from the library at night, but that those used in the building during the day had risen markedly...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences spent some four million dollars 20 years ago; last year the figures had risen above nine. Expenditures for the Dining Halls mush-roomed from one million to three million dollars...
When it did finally come. Conant's election was a precedent breaking one not because he was a chemist Eliot had been one but because he was a commoner, an unproper Bostonian. As the CRIMSON editorialized. "Conant is a man who has to a large extent risen from the ranks, and who is not a member of that aristocracy represented by the Eliot Lowell binary...