Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes in there to work, or read, or snooze"). He became the formidable but revered "Pop" to their two children: son William, now an Army captain and assistant professor of chemistry at West Point, and daughter Lois, wife of Artillery Lieut. Henry E. Simpson at Fort Sill, Okla. He rose fast to brigadier general, took the 34th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade to England...
...Production of electricity rose 13.5% over the same week last year to provide the power for fast-moving industry...
...competition at all for the U.S. Today, Italian generators, locomotives and textile machinery-often built in plants constructed with U.S. economic aid-are pressing U.S. products hard in markets all around the world. While exports of U.S. manufactured goods were dropping 10% last year, Italian trade with Venezuela rose 34%, with Egypt 81%, with Indonesia 142%. Any customers the Italians overlooked were fair game for the busy West Germans. Not long ago U.S. manufacturers worried about German bicycles and other consumer goods. Today the Germans are supplying major elements of a refinery in Argentina, providing the pipes for a Venezuelan...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...
Since the beginning of the year, U.S. business has invested some $130 million in Britain; total U.S. investment now stands at about $2.8 billion. Last week after Timken Roller Bearing Co. had offered $30.5 million for the outstanding British-held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over...