Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Considered Request. "Unless [your] dollar earnings rise dramatically between now and June 1952 [when ECAid ceases]," warned Hoffman, "Europe's trade with the Americas will have to be balanced at so low a level that it will spell disaster for you and difficulties for us." Hoffman's plea for integration included a warning. Said he: "I do make this considered request: that you have ready early in 1950 a record of accomplishment and a program...
...through the iron like a tennis ball through molasses. As it approached the surface, land appeared for the first time; the oceans were crowded to one side, as on the third day of biblical creation.* For a while the earth had only a single continent (Pangea), but the continuing rise of the core material and its spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental drift, that the eastern coast of the Americas looks...
...market's rise was not as gravity-defying as it looked. It was solidly shored up by 1) the whopping third-quarter profits of many a corporation, and 2) an increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends. Chrysler, for example, which had turned in a third-quarter net of $45.4 million v. $24.1 million in the 1948 period, raised its $1.25 quarterly dividend to $1.50. The stock went up 2⅛ points in the next day's trading, to a new 1949 high...
...Adams Express, an investment trust, split its stock 10-for-1, the stock jumped 100 points. As October came there was a series of severe shakeouts. But few took them as a warning. Smart operators thought a setback was only a golden chance to buy for the big new rise acoming...
What Jansen called "the rapid rise of the HYRC" was climaxed at a dinner meeting of the Massachusetts Young Republican Council Saturday night when the council adopted a Harvard-sponsored resolution saying that delegates can't be over 36 years old and officers of the Council can't be over...