Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union or the Government. He also got in first with a 6% to 7% wage increase, lower than some competitors had been discussing, and well within the ability of his company and the industry to pay in the light of textiles' growing recovery from its long postwar slump (TIME, Dec. 8). Since the last pay raise in 1956, textile productivity has risen...
This deficiency in forwards proved to be the Crimson's downfall, for the play of starting guards George Harrington and Mike Donohue left little to be desired. Donohue, left little to be desired. Donohue, out of his recent slump, kept the varsity in front throughout the second half, notching 17 of his 21 points in that stanza. Harrington was second high man with...
...company that kept growing despite the recession. Raytheon Manufacturing noted a backlog of $280 million in unfilled orders, reported that a fat fourth quarter pushed 1958 earnings to $3.08 per share and a new record, 95% better than last year. Westinghouse. whose sales declined 5.6% largely because of the slump in appliances, had a better-than-good year: by working hard on a cost-control program, it managed to boost earnings to $4.25 per share v. $4.18 last year...
...homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began to echo the nationalist sentiments of the recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into the city to find work. Finally, one day last week, 4,000 blacks jammed into the courtyard of a Y.M.C.A. to hear Kasavubu speak at an unauthorized protest meeting. When the police arrived, the riots began...
...EXPORT SLUMP will continue, warns Commerce Department. Though exports edged up slightly in third quarter, "the rise is not sufficient to indicate that the low has been passed, and the upswing has started...