Word: riser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order backlog of 82,000 cars and trucks, equal to six months' top production. As a result. Daimler-Benz stock is one of the greatest sensations on West Germany's booming stock market. A blue chip by nature, it is also the market's star riser, has gone up 400% in the past year, and last week alone jumped 10% to hit $800 a share...
Most of the Harvard community was asleep at 6:40 a.m. yesterday when, in the words of one early morning riser, "the ground shook slightly and there was a low rumble." Nearer the center of the shock, some 100 miles to the northeast of Cambridge, buildings swayed and china rattled for several seconds. There was little actual damage anywhere, however...
When Hagerty broke the news of the President's "upset stomach" from his White House office at 8:50 a.m., it was a break for the Associated Press. A.P. Correspondent Marvin Arrowsmith, an early riser, was the only reporter on hand. His reward: a five-minute beat...
...early riser, the President held his first Cabinet meeting at 7 a.m. on the day after the inauguration, reminded his ministers that he firmly intends to push ahead with his economic program and maintain "a high standard of administrative morality." That night he spoke at a sumptuous banquet (caviar, lobster, pheasant) for the 59 foreign delegations assembled...
Often, before Early Riser Truman signed a single document in the stack he found on his desk each morning, he would first plow through the fronts, temperatures and meandering isobars, check his own predictions against the experts' forecasts. In Kansas City last week, Truman confided that, although it is now impractical for the bureau to send him the big maps he used to fuss with, he "sure would like to get them" again. Weatherman Truman sided with the much-maligned experts, too. Asked why Kansas City had been blanketed by an unexpected snow that very morning, Harry Truman chuckled...