Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerry Lewis. Last season they were the only ones consistently able to save the Colgate Hour from its clobberings by CBS's Ed Sullivan. Last month, when the Milton Berle Show was beaten twice by Phil Silvers, Martin & Lewis charged to Berle's rescue and reversed the trend. They have similarly beefed up the ratings of other NBC programs, from the early-morning Today to the late-at-night Texaco Star Theater...
...construction was too costly, too timeconsuming. Another way was to merge. In 1955 a record 750 companies merged, and both the Government's antitrust lawyers and Congress fretted about the effects on competition. Yet it was the Government's own tax policy that encouraged the trend. With high corporation taxes, expansion-minded companies looked around for weak firms with tax-deductible losses to balance their gains. With even higher income-tax rates it was also a good way for the individual businessman to sell out for a relatively low capital-gains tax and retire with a fortune...
...third time in five months, the Gallup poll indicated a decline in the Liberals' share of the popular vote. The Liberal proportion now stands at 46%, lowest since the 1953 general election. Said the Gallup poll report: "The shift is consistent enough to constitute a trend...
...trend away from the Liberals is clearly toward the Tories. The strength of the minority CCF (socialist) and Social Credit Parties has remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...
...Challenger. Back of the gamble is Romney's conviction that the trend is toward a smaller car-especially for a second car. His competitors agree that cars may not get bigger, but do think that a smaller car will go over. Romney stands unshaken. He has crusaded against the "big, gas-guzzling dinosaurs," even though he admits: "We make them too." In fact, Hudson production for 1955 rose 30% to an estimated 24,700, and Nash 46% to about 43,300. But the big seller is the Rambler. Sales jumped 161% to 87,600 cars. One good sign that...