Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturing business on its own, instead of remaining only a wholesaler of sets, RCA swung an even bigger deal: RCA took over Victor Talking Machine for $150 million worth of RCA preferred and common stock, a price that Wall Street thought far too high. RCA profits continued to soar. In 1929, the company that had hesitated to spend $2,000 on Sarnoff's music box grossed $176,500,000 as a result of it, netted $15.8 million, and was one of the sensations of the big bull market...
...only out of the ineptitude of Eliot House athletes. For shame, Eliot House! Even though I be the last in this House of Irreligion to raise my voice, I plead, I demand, that the music room of the tower be banished to the basement, that the seat of worship soar to take its place...
Rearmament's Bulge. Rearmament's demands had also perked up many an industry, notably aluminum. Reynolds Metals net jumped from $1,454,257 to $5,696,031, a 300% rise. Big American Woolen Co., which has either a feast or a famine, watched its profits soar from a moth-eaten $230,000 to $1,095,000. And the once-sputtering airlines were purring like jets: American turned a $1,331,285 loss into a $2,914,610 profit. The building boom, nipped by restrictions on private housing, had merely shifted its base to the bigger boom of expanding...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
RELIGIOUS MUSIC GETS BUILDUP AS SALES SOAR, squawked a headline in the show-business tradesheet Variety. Beginning with Our Lady of Fatima (TIME, Sept. 25), of which there are currently at least ten recordings, faith has become a popular subject on Tin Pan Alley. The "diskeries," as Variety calls the record companies, are hunting for new items...