Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end, with U.S. personal debts at $800 for every man, woman and child in the nation, many businessmen shook their heads over credit's spectacular rise. Warned Salt Lake City Banker Walter E. Cosgriff: "Almost everyone is aware that if you increase the amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept...
...Thief or not, we want Perón]!" Revolution-wise, they seem to limit themselves so far to sabotage, even in last week's plotting. Squads of Peronistas, called "Resistance Commandos," are blamed for several recent attempts to wreck trains and for a series of spectacular fires on the Buenos Aires waterfront...
...product has been pushed up 286%, from $101.4 billion to $391.5 billion. Such a massive increase in goods and services might seem to be enough to take care of the increased population, but a third factor makes a difference. Since 1940, personal income in the U.S. has risen a spectacular 293%, from $78.3 billion to $307.5 billion...
...years as president of the National Broadcasting Co., eupeptic Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver made the newspapers almost as often as NBC's program timetables. He pushed the so-called "magazine concept" of selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a-half "spectacular" program, thought up NBC's Wide, Wide World and long-winded Monitor. But all this was not entirely to the liking of David Sarnoff, 64, board chairman of NBC's parent company, Radio Corp. of America. Madison Avenue gossiped that Pat Weaver was getting too much personal publicity...
...this club has possibilities," John White, coach of the freshman hockey team, mused modestly. "We may not be as spectacular as last year, but we have more depth, and that's a good thing...