Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LIFE-POLICY SALES dipped in 1958 for first time since 1951. Purchases through November dropped 2% to $58.5 billion. Sales of ordinary life insurance policies rose, but new group and industrial life totals fell...
...broke into the top 15 brands. Meantime, Reynolds sped ahead on the sales of its Winston, up 5.5% to 42.3 billion, ranking it as the top-selling filter and No. 4 among all brands. Reynolds' filtered Salem also took over first place in the burgeoning mentholated market, and rose from 13th to tenth place among all brands, as sales jumped...
Though the cost-of-living index for November rose slightly with the price rises of new cars, Government economists expect lower pork, fruit and vegetable prices to hold the index down until spring. Prices went down at Montgomery Ward; the giant mail-order house cut 16,042 items by an average of 10%. pegged some items lower than they have been at any time since...
...strong Mine Workers union, is now the boss of a union shrunk to 200,000, and seldom gives cause for alarm. In steel the white-collar percentage in the working force has doubled since 1942 to 18% or 20%, will go up to 33% by 1970. In chemicals it rose from 24% in 1947 to 36% in 1957, will hit 50% by 1968. In all U.S. manufacturing, it has climbed from 16% to 25% within the past decade...
...lobbying hard to bump Northwest off the lucrative Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run. By last week Don Nyrop, 46, had piloted Northwest through all those storms. In 1958, said Nyrop, the line's operating revenues climbed from $83.4 million to a record $101 million, and profits through November rose...