Word: rising
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...borrowed to play the missing clarinet parts in the football songs. Two of the members that year were Leroy Anderson '29, renowned composer, and Malcolm Holmes '28. From 1942 until his untimely death in 1953, Mal Holmes was the Band's director and the prime mover in its rise to the top among college bands. The spirit and musical competence that he instilled into the Band remains today...
...after glittering thousands had danced, drunk and cheered till dawn. The staid London Stock Exchange erupted in an exuberant burst of buying as morning-coated brokers shouted bids at lung-top, stood on chairs to make sure their bids were recognized; industrial shares soared 16.1 points for the biggest rise ever recorded in a single day. The box score of Macmillan...
INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS will rise to $300 billion by early 1960, from $288.5 billion at end of last June. Long-term savings in life insurance, banks and Government bonds now average $5,500 for each U.S. household, v. $4,000 in 1950, only...
SOME stockholders grumble that Barr has spent so much on expansion that earnings have suffered (they dropped below 1957 in 1958). But Barr argues that money spent now will bring benefits in higher profits later. The rise has started. Earnings in the first half this year jumped to $10.6 million from $8.6 million last year. In the next five years, Barr plans to spend $500 million on expansion. By 1963 he expects sales to be running at $1.8 or $2 billion a year...
...round. By using their skills full-time, teachers could probably earn more than one-third more pay, since administrative cost would not increase proportionally. In a school with initially high salaries like Exeter, the increase would make them competitive with industry, and in other schools, salaries might at least rise above the subsistence level...