Word: rosiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rosy first-quarter earnings reports continued to pour out last week, the rosiest came from General Motors. President Harlow Curtice reported that arms orders and the biggest production of cars and trucks since 1950 had brought G.M. sales to $2.5 billion, an alltime high rate of $10 billion a year. The gross was up 42.6% from a year ago, and net profits were...
...outpouring of first-quarter earnings, many a company reported the best sales and profits in its history. Of 236 companies which had reported by last week, 167-or 71%-showed profit rises. The food industry, helped by lower commodity prices, furnished some of the rosiest reading. Clinton Foods (Snow Crop frozen foods) had a 651% gain (to $1,200,000), Continental Baking almost 132% (to $1,400,000). A. E. Staley had a 125% gain, to $1,200,000, and Corn Products Refining...
...over the U.S. last week, editors read the Moscow traffic that came in over their A.P., U.P. and I.N.S. teletype machines, and wondered. Over the wires from the U.S.S.R.'s capital came dispatches giving the rosiest accounts of life in Russia that the editors had read in many a day. Moscow's "amazingly beautiful" subway, said one wide-eyed U.P. story, combines unmatched "public service, beauty and cultural design." There, were stories about Moscow's "well-dressed" crowds and "kids skipping rope." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker thought the stories fitted the party line so well...
...Keller stepped out of the presidency after 15 years, he left Colbert the rosiest financial statement in Chrysler history. On a gross of $1,490,404,450 in the first nine months, net profits hit a record $105,246,991, equal to $12.09 a share (v. $11.22 in the same period last year). In the third quarter alone profits were $7.55 a share. As a result, Chrysler has already declared dividends of $9.75 a share so far this year, compared...