Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUTH ELINOR TREND Bronxville...
Deductible Comfort. Air-conditioning manufacturers, who do something about the weather as well as complain about it, say that hot and cold spells still throw seasonal estimates out of kilter; e.g., demand rose 200% during a six-week heat wave last July and August. But the trend to bigger, more expensive units has sharply reduced impulse buying. Government agencies also have boosted non-seasonal equipment sales. For example, the Federal Housing Administration recently approved inclusion of central air-conditioning in basic home-mortgage loans. The Internal Revenue Service permits sufferers from hay fever, asthma and heart disease to deduct...
Optimists about Canada's economic future have long expected that it would follow the same pattern as the U.S., where foreign capital, largely from Britain, primed the nation's industrial development and was eventually bought out almost 100% by American investors. The same trend has already begun in Canada, the Bureau of Statistics survey showed. Canadian ownership of government bonds and of stocks in Canadian railways, utilities, banks and insurance companies has grown markedly since...
...Canadians taking over an evergrowing share of these relatively conservative investments, U.S. investors have tended in recent years to plunge on more speculative enterprises. The recent inflow of American capital has mainly gone into Canada's oil industry, mining and new manufacturing plants. But here too, the inexorable trend toward local ownership is already under way. In the past ten years, Canadian investors have increased their stock holdings in U.S.-controlled companies operating in Canada by more than...
...reason for this break with the recent trend is primarily the limited number of available rooms in the Yard and crowded conditions in the Houses--the eventual home for the Class...