Word: shared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still shone in Monte Carlo, sailboats skittered about the bay, the gambling casino still earned enough francs to pay its share of the costs of government. To show their unconcern with events and their trust in their subjects, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace left their pink palazzo to attend a gala Monte Carlo performance of La Bonne Soupe, the touring Parisian comedy hit about prostitutes. Both their Serene Highnesses found it "very amusing...
...that orders were being received at a faster rate than at any time in 1958, as Big Steel fired up seven of 14 open-hearth furnaces idled at its Pennsylvania Homestead Works last March. Equally cheering, Blough told stockholders that the company earned $90,728,989 or $1.57 a share in the fourth quarter, topping the $90,096,731 or $1.56 a share it netted a year earlier. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. relit a Chicago blast furnace and two East Chicago coke batteries it shut down in October...
Nowhere was the steel news brighter than at Bethlehem Steel Corp. President Arthur B. Homer of the nation's No. 2 producer (after U.S. Steel) disclosed that on top of earning $57,678,360 or $1.24 a share in the closing quarter of 1958, the second highest fourth-quarter profit in its history, the company was operating at 80% of enlarged 1959 capacity and planning to go to 85% next quarter. Said Homer: "We've been having quite an upsurge in orders. It looks as if January bookings will be the highest for any month in the last...
...profits rising fast enough in many cases to offset the previous slowdown and turn 1958 into a fine year. After limping along 33% behind 1957 for the first nine months, Monsanto Chemical Co. reported the best fourth quarter in history, so good that full-year earnings totaled $1.55 per share, only 7.7% behind last year. Philco's fourth quarter nearly doubled last year's rate. Seeburg Corp. announced 54? a share in the first quarter of its fiscal 1959 v. only 50? for the full twelve months before...
...scanty audience increased in its passivity, a small and amateur claque caused a good bit of rustling and unrest in the back of the hall, distracting the audience and perhaps insulting it by hoots of enthusiasm that the paying customers could not share. If he's any sort of professional (and the program claims he certainly is), Mr.Murray, the director, should take these urchins across his knee...