Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching pad, leaving the black and white missile standing stark against the sky, her nose a full 80 ft. above the ground. Dozens of helmeted workers swarmed about her base, and a man climbed up to tinker with valves and connecting lines. A moment later plumes of mist rose from the base as fueling with liquid oxygen began...
While Kubitschek spent for its future greatness, Brazil suffered. The treasury deficit rose $240 million in the first eight months of the year. The cruzeiro hit a low of 96.5 to the dollar last month; living costs rose 20% yearly...
Around the nation, there was a sprinkling of layoffs and forced "vacations"; Chrysler shut down major plants for the year's last two weeks, laid off some 60,000 workers, Ford another 35,000. As the jobless rose to about 3,700,000 in December (2,500,000 in December 1956), economists speculated that unemployment might hit 4,500,000 by midwinter...
...alltime high of $436 billion. Industrial production edged up to a record average for the year of 144; employment reached an alltime peak of 67.2 million before dropping at year's end; corporate assets swelled to $229 billion. Wages continued to rise. The average hourly pay rose from $2.05 in January to $2.10 near year's end. Despite worry over the squeeze on earnings from rising costs, industry's profits will probably wind up only slightly under last year's boom levels of $43 billion before taxes, $21 billion after taxes, while stockholder dividends (about...
Banker William Rose, who shared others' wealth last year in Ellenville, N.Y., reaped his reward last week. Having admitted gift-loans of $1,400,000 that collapsed his Home National Bank (TiME, Dec. 24, 1956), Rose, 51, heard a New York federal judge sentence him to five years in jail for misapplication of bank funds. President Joseph Di Candia of the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., who invested part of $958,000 in loans from Rose in wine, women and song, was sentenced to three years for his part in the deal. Mrs. Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schandler...