Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industries. Often they faced a grinding struggle for survival in the New World's harsh slums and wind-whipped prairies, but somehow the immigrants managed to take root. Out of their extraordinary exodus - which John F. Kennedy called "the largest migration of people in all recorded history" -rose an extraordinary nation...
Reformers & Reds. In the Senate, Fulbright's colleagues, who had access to the same files as he, rose one after another to dispute his conclusions. Said Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd: intervention was an "unavoidable necessity." Fulbright, he noted, "suffers from an indiscriminate infatuation with revolutions of all kinds -national, democratic or Communist...
...eats 175 Ibs. of meat a year, 14 Ibs. more than five years ago Despite this rise in the consumer's appetite, the profits of the meat-packing industry remained depressingly low for close to two decades. Last year, finally the packers made a dramatic breakthrough: profits rose to $166 million, 46 million more than in 1963. The 1964 federal tax cut was partly responsible, but the convention of the American Meat Institute in Manhattan last week displayed an even bigger reason: some new machines that can pack profits as well as meat...
...high of $7,123,356 last year - a performance that won him the attention of Burlington directors. In moving to the larger Burlington (8,546 miles of track v. the Frisco's 5,054), Menk measurably increases his challenge. Though the road's freight and passenger revenues rose last year, income fell $1,012,306 to $20.3 million, is down another $6,011,000 so far this year. Menk is expected to shake the Burlington up, plans to make heavy use of computers to analyze operations...
While the average American consumer is working toward his second and often his third car, most Europeans are still working toward their first. They are working hard: Europe's overall auto sales rose 7% last year, when record years in Britain and West Germany offset slumps in France and Italy. As the annual run of international auto shows began last week in Frankfurt, Europe's 1966 model year headed toward further gains. If, as in the U.S., the new models brought few big surprises, there were striking signs that European automakers are betting heavily on some lessons from...