Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work clothes and soft goods were edging upward. But Administration economists were carefully watching the trend (TIME...
...four, will shut down its Chicago meat operation, lay off 3,000 workers and abandon its 71-building plant scattered over 22 acres in the stockyards area. Main reason: because of improvements in transportation, refrigeration and communication, slaughterhouses are moving steadily closer to the range. To follow the trend, Wilson will spend $4,500,000 to expand and modernize plants in Omaha, Albert Lea, Minn, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...declining in the U.S. In 1934 the national rate was 5.8 deaths per 100,000 persons; by last year, according to a new study of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. policyholders, the figure had dropped to 1.9 per 100,000. Last week,with the first 1955 statistics being tallied, the trend was still downward. Other changes on the homicide chart...
...family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian patois for kiss). At Breslau University and later...
...hundreds of other companies-in every industry-are changing hands. They are being taken over by a new breed of profit-minded investors, who are dissatisfied with professional managers (often owners of only a small stock interest) and want to direct the firms themselves. To some businessmen the new trend is bad; they call such investors "destructive opportunists," "mortuary millionaires" who kill off companies to pocket their assets. But to a good many other businessmen the take-over trend is all to the good. They argue that it is sparking a resurgence of stockholder interest in management, forcing management everywhere...