Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When silt sinks slowly to the bottom of an ocean or lake, the magnetic particles in it line up with the earth's magnetic field like tiny compass needles. When the silt hardens into rock, the magnetic particles are "frozen" so that they cannot move. The Carnegie scientists found...
For three days there were offers and counteroffers. Then the haggling came to an end and the Giants proudly announced that they had taken on Boston's talented young (26) Shortstop Alvin Dark and his garrulous sidekick, aging (32) Second Baseman Ed Stanky. Leo Durocher seemed principally pleased to...
To many a businessman the latest increase, smaller than the preceding three, was hardly a surprise. But in Washington, it stirred up Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who had not been at all critical while the Steelworkers were after their wage boost last summer. Cried he: "The steel...
Rosy Future. Actually, in a free and once more competitive economy, Big Steel had a perfect right to raise its prices. But with the steel shortage over, it might not get away with it. Big Steel's customers certainly would not like the $80 million-a-year increase in...
The "Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population...