Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington that was attended by the top management of the principal lending agencies in the automotive industry. While this group did not recommend specific terms for automobile purchasers, they viewed with alarm the prevalence of new-car terms that extend beyond 30 months, and expressed concern over the trend toward down payments that are unrealistically low ... At the same time the finance men who were present . . . stated that outstanding automobile installment credit, when related to overall personal income and the gross national product, is not out of line...
...nine major movie studios have decided to go into TV in one way or another. The three major TV networks (NBC, CBS, ABC) have established-or have plans for-large plants and are developing increasing facilities for live and TV film production in Hollywood. Concerned over the trend away from New York toward the coast, New York's Governor Averell Harriman, backed by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, met with TV network officials to persuade them to build the same kind of large, permanent studios in New York that they are building in Hollywood...
Overall. Moody estimated that the recent trend to fringe benefits has added $43 billion a Dually to the U.S. labor bill, or one-fifth of the total...
...target of Communists. For their troubles most of them earn slim profits. Returns average only 3% a year on investment, compared to 9% for manufacturers and about 20% for oil producers. But now Mexico has launched a new policy to give utilities a break. Reversing the long anti-utility trend, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wants to encourage foreign-owned utilities to expand as part of a $500 million plan to treble power production and make private enterprise an equal partner in meeting the nation's needs. Said President Ruiz Cortines: "The objective of the government . . . is clear: to complement...
...some states the increasing trend is to farm corporations which take over the job of dozens of small farmers. But largely U.S. farming is still a family operation run by a farmer who has learned to buy machines and make them pay. With bigger crops from his machines and a good income, he can afford to pay high land prices to buy more acres, make more money, and thus buy still more land. Ten years ago Willard Wedberg of Fremont Neb. had two hired hands to help work 320 acres of corn land! Last year, with bigger and better cultivators...