Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agog over a scandal centering around one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal aides, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named Haridas Mundhra...
...Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft. At 7:45 a.m. 22 negotiators crowded round a table in the main hall of King Hussein's palace and signed...
...former dean of the University of Minnesota's agriculture and forestry college, he went to Washington in 1952. He was a kindly man, who meant and did well for the university in his own way. The biennial appropriations zoomed from $22 million to almost $38 million; faculty salaries rose an average 28%, research grants and contracts quadrupled, and a sizable new building program was begun. But in spite of all these accomplishments, Henry Schmitz's administration made some major bloopers...
...million), tumbled an even sharper 34%, dropping back to 14% of the market. General Motors' sales dropped only 11%, and G.M. jumped up to 56% of the market v. 46% last year. Nevertheless, the industry's overall sales were so far behind production that dealers' stocks rose to 825,000 by Jan. 31, almost 35% more than the total last year at the same time...
Getty Oil's earnings zoomed from $7,887,947 in 1956 to an estimated $17.3 million last year, and Skelly's earnings rose from $34.1 million to an estimated $37.3 million. But Tidewater is expected to report an earnings drop from $34 million in 1956 to $27.2 million in 1957. Reason: Refiner Tidewater has been harder hit than the producing end of Getty's empire by the drop-off in gasoline demand...