Word: rising
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Understanding. Anxious to place the blame elsewhere, the Union's Minister for External Affairs Eric Louw declared that he had warned the U.N. all along that "incitement among nonwhites would give rise to disorder." And just to make sure that the outside world would not be so misguided in the future, a group of South Africa's richest men, headed by Sir Francis de Guingand, onetime Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, and including Harry Oppenheimer, head of the De Beers diamond trust, announced that they were setting up a foundation devoted to promoting "international understanding...
...executives often rise with giddy speed to their high perches, teeter briefly, then disappear with the first rough wind, it is perhaps because they have little administrative and command background for the big job. And so some hang on, but many fall...
...solid subscribers, a Manhattan office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light of the technological revolution, Piel clearly foresaw the rise of a new breed of technological man. It was his conviction that a magazine beamed at this burgeoning breed would grow right along with...
...high economy bounced along on other fronts, with only a few bumps to slow its headlong pace: ¶ Employment in the U.S. in November reached 65,640,000, a record for the month, despite a decline of 1,191,000 in the number of jobs from October and a rise in unemployment to 3,670,000. Most of the unemployment rise was due to layoffs in industries depending on steel; the decline in jobs, bigger than the rise in unemployment, indicated that many workers retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output...
Merchandising. Charles H. Kellstadt, president of Sears, Roebuck, expects that consumer durables, including autos, will rise 8% to 10% over 1959. Soft goods will rise 5%. Kellstadt said that a year ago he predicted this fall's retail business would be 5% better than last year. It turned out 7% better, so Sears is upping its own sights on sales growth next spring from 5% to 7% over...