Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company profits went right on gushing skyward. Net income of the Standard Oil Co. of California for the first half jumped from 1944's $9.8 million to $14.7 million. Smaller Phillips Petroleum did better; its $2.96 a share compared with $1.83 of a year ago. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) came up with an estimate of a cool $84 million v. $71 million...
...capital's hush every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
...massive steel skeleton had sprouted skyward, but war came and the steel was melted down into guns and shells. Last week, with the Germans well whipped, the Russians began building their palace in earnest...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...
...Reason: prices will be lower. Last week, WPB and OPA finally decided to snap a checkrein on runaway textile prices. Shoppers agreed that it was high time. Since 1939 the volume of woven fabrics available to civilians had decreased 20%, but the nation's clothing bill had zoomed skyward from 1939's $5.8 billion to $11.4 billion last year...