Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personal income in March rose to a new high of $368.6 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, a gain of $3.2 billion from February's previous high of $365.4 billion...
...Private housing starts in March rose to the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,390,000 from 1,320,000 in February...
...production, recovering all of its recession drop, is at a new high. The recovery has not only been faster than many an economist dared forecast a few months back, but has actually been faster than official figures showed. The Federal Reserve Board announced that overall industrial production in March rose to 147% of the 1947-49 average, a point more than the previous record of 146% in February 1957. The FRB also revised upward its February industrial output figure from 144%, as previously announced, to 145%. Most encouraging was the fact that the extra boost in production has come from...
Corporate profits in the first quarter of 1959 rose to $47 billion, an alltime peak. So Government statisticians estimated last week, as glowing first-quarter earnings continued to come...
Last week Ed Ragsdale announced his retirement. G.M. handed his job to Edward Dumas Rollert, 47, boss of its Harrison Radiator Division at Lockport, N.Y. Like Ragsdale, Engineer Rollert moved up via manufacturing instead of sales. He joined G.M. out of Purdue ('33), rose in the AC Spark Plug Division as metallurgist, chief tool-and-die designer, assistant works manager. During the Korean war he managed the Kansas City, Kans., Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, made his mark by converting it into G.M.'s first dual-purpose plant, turning out cars and F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters...