Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability of refiners to outfoot sky-high taxes and rising costs that tripped up many another industry was due to one simple fact: they squeezed out additional capacity with but little additional manpower or equipment. Thus, they increased earnings proportionately with volume. The trend of U.S. industry, on the whole, has been just the opposite...
...cases have been decided that there is as yet no indication of what the trend will be. But the Treasury is worried, partly at the vast amount of paper work ahead-one company expects its $50,000 investment for a few weeks' paper work by its lawyers to pay off more than its huge sales can show in a year's profits...
...adding some 127,066,629 proof gallons to their stocks through the purchase of small distillers. (The report did not note that the little companies often willingly took this golden opportunity to get a war-high price for their businesses.) The subcommittee also cited, as evidence of a trend to monopoly, the Big Four-owned distilleries in Cuba and Puerto Rico...
...rust of revolt was corroding the mighty German war machine; Army officers had tried to kill Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime (see FOREIGN NEWS). The attempt itself marked a fateful trend within the Reich; even more significant were the admissions by Hitler and his new chief of staff, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, that the proud German officer corps was disaffected, that officers on active service were involved in the plot...
...song hit was a bouncy novelty for children, Swingin' on a Star; the three runners-up were sentimental lyrics, of which two (I'll Be Seeing You and I'll Get By) were years old. Manhattan, the very citadel of the new, reinforced the trend to the old and romantic: one night 21,000 people, the biggest crowd in two years, crammed Lewisohn Stadium to hear Oscar Levant play George Gershwin's 1924 smash, the Rhapsody in Blue...