Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used his profits to move into other fields. In 1946 Simon went into Ohio Match, whose stock was selling at some $2,500,000 below net worth. He had so many good ideas that the directors offered him a voice in company policy without a fight, saw their profits soar. Later, to get wood supplies for Ohio Match, he invested some of its cash in the Northern Pacific Railroad, which had big timber tracts, turned up with control of 14% of the stock. He won a seat on the board, forced a change in the way the company was leasing...
...Raising its sights another notch, the Government estimated construction outlays this year will reach $41.8 billion, a full 11% above the record spending of 1954. House building will be just a shade under the all-time 1950 record; office construction, stores, churches, schools, public works and highway construction will soar past all previous peaks...
FRUIT PRICES will soar this summer because of spring freezes in the South, California and Michigan. Prices of plums, apricots, watermelons and peaches will go up, at least until late Northern crops start coming to market. On Southern markets, peaches are selling at 25? apiece...
...million people, the U.S. uses an average of about 1,500 gallons of water every day (v. 600 gallons in 1900). All told, the nation consumes 231 billion gallons daily, more than enough to float the combined merchant fleets of the entire world; by 1975 consumption will soar to 402 billion gallons a day. One of the nation's top water experts, Army Engineers Chief Samuel Sturgis Jr., warns that the U.S. had better head off a shortage without further delay...
...Most Intimate (Charlie Shavers, trumpet, and strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...