Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...
Cynics argue that the speculative trend is inevitable until the law of supply and demand is repealed and human nature changes. But responsible men have begun to worry. Both Funston and American Exchange President Ralph Saul have warned their member brokers not to abet ill-advised speculation; in some cases the exchanges have stopped trading in risky stocks temporarily or require 100% margin. Giant Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith recently dusted off an advertisement that reminds investors that Wall Street runs two ways. Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Manuel F. Cohen has his investigators scrutinizing for possible fraud 45 companies whose...
Following the trend in liner operation-to make up for transatlantic trade lost to jets by offering leisure voyages -the ship will cross the North Atlantic in warm weather, switch to southern waters for winter cruising. From keel up, it is designed to do either in such a way as to return a profit. Which, for all their traditions, is something the Queens did not always...
...companies reporting so far in 1967; the United Kingdom's economic growth rate lurches along at an annual 2%, and the balance-of-payments problem is far from solved. "There is no economic justification for the rise," said the Economist. One explanation for the surge is a nationwide trend toward mergers, which has reduced the number of shares on the market and generated more liquidity in search of new investment...
Beneficial Environments. Much of ITT's rapid overseas growth is coming from its traditional communications operations, a trend that should continue on the strength of the unmet foreign demand for telephone lines; even in industrialized Europe, there are only ten telephones for every 100 people v. 48 per 100 in the U.S. ITT recently installed a 5,000-line telephone exchange in Madras, India, won a contract to supply the Hong Kong Hilton with a 1,000-ex-tension automatic phone system. Another rich market opening up is in worldwide satellite communications; ITT (after A.T. & T. the largest stockholder...