Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department store sales across the nation rose 5% above a year...
...Commercial loans, which have been running slower than expected, rose $46 million, to $29 billion in early March, $8,000,000 above the year-earlier total...
...oats on the way up. It was frequently accused of giving policyholders a false sense of security with its promises, then yanking the bed sheet from under them when they got sick, citing the fine print of the contract. The company has also been involved in policyholder suits. One rose out of a decision by the company's officers in 1926 to set up a parallel life insurance company, using Mutual's facilities and staff. Not only did the parallel company, United Benefit Life Insurance Co., wax rich in the years that followed, but later, Mutual officers...
...took over the presidency of Mutual in 1949 from the late founder Dr. C. C. Criss, he set about building up-and drastically changing-the company. South Dakota-born Skutt studied law at Omaha's Creighton University, and in 1924 entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify Omaha as a city, state, river or mountain, told...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving. With Maria Schell...