Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICAN MOTORS' earnings exceed even most optimistic estimates. Per share earnings for fiscal 1958 (which ended Sept. 30) jumped to $4.40 a share, v. last year's loss of $2.12. Profits climbed to $26 million (of which almost $12 million was made in July-September quarter), v. last year's deficit...
...British public last week got a wide-eyed view of just how successful commercial TV can be. From the directors of three-year-old ATV (Associated Television) came an announcement that earnings before taxes for the fiscal year ending next April will exceed $14 million, a 40% gain over last year, and more than twelve times the earnings of only two years ago. Even more spectacular is what happened to the fortunes of early investors in ATV. A single original share in ATV that sold for 20? is now worth $30.80. Norman Collins, 51, author and TV executive who originally...
...chief product of Smith's typewriter is his short, sharp memos, which rarely exceed a page. They cover everything from ideas on a new plane American is considering buying to complaints about an airliner's coffee, are dispatched in a steady stream to every corner of American's operations. Wrote Smith, after noticing that souvenirs were distributed on a crack Captain's Flagship flight: "How long are you going to have them, and why have you got them...
EARLY descriptions of radioactive fallout's effect on future generations were subject to exaggeration. Now, an M.I.T. study shows that the human capacity to absorb radium may exceed the previous medical estimates by as much as 25 times. For the sobering story, see MEDICINE, Radium Hangovers...
...appointment, which will not exceed two years' duration, will take Elder into the field very quickly," the source said. He will soon address groups of graduate school deans in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, explaining the program and estimating the proportion of funds expendable in different institutions. It is uncertain as yet how much of the two years the Dean will spend away from Cambridge...