Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Council of Economic Advisers came a report confirming what most businessmen suspected: profits are back to prerecession levels, and climbing. At $21.6 billion for the fourth quarter of 1958, after-tax profits showed a $3 billion jump from the third quarter; undistributed profits, or the money companies still have after taxes, dividends, etc., were up to $9.8 billion, the highest level since the first quarter of boom year 1957. The high profit level, plus the assurance of a fine first-quarter report for 1959, gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling...
...really concentrating on cars this year-cars that look well, run well, and are available to the ordinary citizen." So said an exhibitor last week of the biggest auto show ever held in the U.S. The Third International Automobile Show filled Manhattan's Coliseum with more than 600 cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega...
Trailing 8 to 3 late in the third period, the disorganized Boston Lacrosse Club finally began to play as a unit and defeated the varsity 11 to 8 on a slippery Business School Field here Saturday. The varsity scored five of its goals in the first seven minutes of play, before the regular BLC goalie--who arrived at the field after play had begun--took over...
After 11 minutes of the third period, it looked as if the Crimson had sewed up the game. Cabral's goal early in the frame put the varsity ahead 7 to 3, and after 10 minutes of indecisive lacrosse, Andy Leaf sunk what was to be the varsity's last score...
Carlos Rodriguez managed to salvage dashed Crimson hopes by placing third in individual point scoring in his division. All the teams were hampered, however, by very light winds, which at times almost turned the contest into a drifting match...