Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small car in the U.S. Finally, the Big Three have had to pay Romney the sincerest form of flattery by bringing out their own compact cars. For the story of Bible-quoting George Romney's amazing rise-and what will happen to him and his company...
Just then, another car, headed in the opposite direction, came over a rise in the highway. The cars crashed headon. Seven people were injured in the wreck. Caught between dashboard and front seat and instantly killed was little Philip Roberts, still on his knees...
Unknown Giant. The man who benefited most from the fast rise is an up-from-the-sidewalks Canadian financier and promoter, Louis Arthur Chesler, 46, chairman and prime mover of both Universal and General. Lou Chesler came to the U.S. three years ago with $4,000,000, has since run up a paper profit of $70 million on his Universal and General holdings alone. Yet few Wall Streeters know him, since he keeps in the background, trains the limelight on his U.S.-born junior partners...
Industrial Wire & Cable Ltd., and Providence's Grant Money Meters Co. (toll-road coin boxes). Universal estimates that earnings for the fiscal year ending in March will rise 56% to about $3,900,000, or $2 per share. That means Universal stock sells at a steep 48^ times earnings; Chesler's $1,000,000 ante in Universal has zoomed to a market value near $25 million...
...Author Durrell's weaknesses would still be strengths in most other novelists, and readers of Mountolive will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design. The book ends with a rise of tension as Nessim's brother, a naive savage armed with a bullwhip and a Messianic impulse, is brutally slain. Faithful to his belief that "truth is what most contradicts itself," Author Durrell fails to be explicit about the murderer. It may be Nessim, Justine, or even agents of King Farouk's lethargic government. Presumably, this cliffhanger conclusion will...