Word: rose
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1930s. Consumer spending has moved up, boosting demand for everything from automobiles to pantyhose. But spending by business for such items as machine tools, plants, office buildings and stores has been persistently sluggish. During the first 21 months of recovery, until last December, business investment adjusted for inflation rose at a paltry average annual rate of 3%, only about a fifth the rate during the same stage of previous recoveries. The shortfall, figures J. Stanford Smith, chairman of International Paper Co., has cost the nation 400,000 jobs that would have been created if investment had risen as rapidly...
...points since the start of the year; it rebounded to 927 on Friday. The market sagged despite bullish economic news. The nation's unemployment rate in March dropped to 7.3%, from February's 7.5%. The Commerce Department's index of leading indicators, a harbinger of growth, rose four-tenths of a percent in February, partially recouping January's loss and showing that the long midwinter freeze in the big industrial states would not have any lasting dampening effect on the U.S. economy...
...portrayed an economy roaring out of its winter doldrums. Industrial production in February jumped a full 1%, more than wiping out a January drop. About the only component that fell was auto output, and that should turn around quickly: new car sales in the first ten days of March rose more than 19% from a year earlier, to a record daily selling rate for the period. Housing starts in February soared 29%, the biggest one-month jump ever, to an annual rate of 1,791,000. Personal income in February rose at an annual rate of $17.1 billion, more than...
...Mexico, where the coffee pickers are in short supply, the lot of the hired worker has not improved. In Brazil, laborers known as bóias frias (literal translation: cold grub) still get less than $2.73 for a full day of picking coffee berries, no more than before prices rose-though some have made enough profit to retire for the rest of their lives...
...first woman network correspondent to cover a national political convention for TV had a double assignment. She was supposed to interview Bess Truman and Frances Dewey and, while she was at it, apply their pancake makeup. Pauline Frederick rose from that humiliating start in 1948 to a distinguished career as NBC's United Nations correspondent. By the time she retired from NBC in 1974, only a handful of women had followed her into the influential, hotly coveted but obdurately masculine preserve of network reporting...