Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three days firebreaks were slashed through the forest with 'dozers on the flat and hand tools on the steep slopes. Again and again the fire lunged across. Along Mill Flat Creek on the fourth day, the crews prepared a 20-ft. break and a final stand. All morning they stamped out blazes flaring up across the line. But at 2 p.m. the fire roared across, raced three miles in 38 minutes, destroyed a fresh 4,000-acre tract of prime timber - 2,000,000 trees-before evening. "This," said one ranger, "is a classic fire...
...steep rise in auto credit brought a flashing-red danger signal last week from General Motors Acceptance Corp., biggest U.S. auto-finance company. Said G.M.A.C. to G.M. dealers: "Some customers who should buy used cars are being induced through 'easy terms' to take new cars. And some people who ordinarily would buy a lower-priced new car are 'easy-termed' into a bigger, more expensive model...
...days after the new Congress organized in January, Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright gave business its first big scare. Chatting with a newsman right after he became chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Fulbright was asked if he would look into, among other things, the steep rise in the stock market. Why, yes, said Fulbright, "we ought to have a look." The headlines that followed his off-the-cuff answer caused Wall Streeters to brace themselves for something like the Pecora investigation...
...Coachella Valley, the land is so fertile that most ranchers double-crop, producing two yields a year from the same acreage. On an intensively worked ranch of 80 acres, Henry Sakemi, a Nisei farmer, raises tomatoes, peas, corn, beans, romaine lettuce and squash. His overhead is steep: four tractors, cultivators, disks, plows, subsoilers, harrows, planters and bed-shapers, besides the cost for water and labor (up to 90 field hands during harvest). But his yields are immense: 200 crates per acre of sweet corn, each crate holding five dozen ears, and tomatoes that net a steady $500-a-year-profit...
Beyond the brewing, Anheuser-Busch faces complicated pricing and distribution problems. The company charges its wholesalers $2.46 per 24-bottle case, yet it makes only 14? profit. The rest of the average $5-per-case retail cost of Budweiser goes for retailers' and wholesalers' markups, steep state and local taxes. To conform with varying local liquor laws, Anheuser-Busch has to use some 600 different labels, packages and bottle caps...