Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminarians' summer jobs reflected a trend that is belatedly gathering steam in U.S. Protestantism. Roman Catholic leaders have long made the working man a special concern; Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was well known for his concern for the workers' cause. Except in mission work, most of the Protestant denominations have concentrated on the tending of middle-class flocks...
...West Coast last week, three weekly newspapers * changed hands. But they were an exception to a trend. Elsewhere in the U.S., scores of would-be buyers were hunting dailies or weeklies for sale-and hunting in vain. In Florida alone, one broker reported he had 25 buying offers, not one to sell. In Michigan, ex-Senator Blair Moody, who had lined up capital for a daily (TIME, Aug. 17), had not been able to find one to buy. The reason: newspapers in general are making fat profits, anywhere from 6% to 15% after taxes. Few owners want to sell...
...almost without realizing it, is heading towards a new bilateralism. Acting alone, Washington guaranteed Formosa, pledged aid to Syngman Rhee, expects to sign a treaty with Franco Spain. This week the U.S. and its U.N. allies disagreed publicly in the U.N. General Assembly: though some clucked over this trend, and others were made nervous by it, it brought a refreshing new realism into events...
...pictures is not yet enough to pay off the added cost of enlarged projection booths, extra machines and extra operators, only 2,100 of the nation's 21,500 theaters are equipped to show 3-D. ¶ M-G-M may have scented a new trend: the original Lassie movie has been remade into a film called Gypsy Colt in which the lovable old canine has been replaced by a horse...
...elevator trend to robot machines is growing. Otis Elevator Co. is building 30 operatorless elevators for Prudential's 41-story Chicago offices, and robot elevators now account for 75% of Otis' sales, v. only...