Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end the industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers, flooded U.S. yards with orders -even if no one was sure when the steel would arrive. In 1956 steelmen spent $1.2 billion to expand. At year's end they planned to spend $2 billion more if the Government would allow them fast tax write-offs...
...only two men to check out the 24 electronic boxes in the older F86D, it requires ten to check the F102B's 210 electronic boxes. Private industry strongly believes that a smarter and cheaper way would be to let business do the job; the military should follow the trend in private business, where many firms no longer try to maintain such equipment as trucks or electronic machines, but rent the equipment, let outsiders maintain it. And though private wages are higher than service pay, the difference is not so great, considering the cost of training and supporting a serviceman...
David W. Bailey, Secretary to the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, said that WGBH has undertaken the program as a "news event." Bailey added that this does not necessarily mark a new trend toward telecasting University events...
...free world, doubts, problems, deficiencies and divergences persisted, and events to come could well shake and Change the new trend toward unity. But the realization was spreading and crystallizing that the U.S. stands for peace and justice in the world. To turn that realization into a lasting asset is the next task of U.S. foreign policy...
Simple Survival. The industry does not deny the trend, but many of its leaders argue that container mergers are a matter of simple survival. With plastics, foils and other new materials fast moving into the container field and taking over areas once dominated by the tin can and the glass jar, the oldtime companies must expand or be left behind. The company that sticks with one type of container could be stuck...