Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the highest take-off point in history. Sales in the final pre-Thanksgiving week hit 182 on the 1947-49 index, up from 169 in 1958. Only 5% ahead of 1958 at the beginning of November, department-store sales were 6% ahead in the second week of the month, 8% ahead in the third. Other signs of a faster beat in the economy...
...Contract awards for factories, stores and office buildings continued a two-month climb and pushed October nonresidential construction awards to a record $1,003,457,000, or 5% ahead of last year...
Curtiss-Wright Corp. and its Chairman Roy T. Hurley are having their woes in the business of making aircraft engines, but when it comes to press releases, they fly high. Month ago, with sales down from $599 million in 1957 to $389 million in 1958 and still slumping, C-W displayed a "revolutionary" new air-car for U.S. travelers, a vehicle that has no wheels, but zooms along at 60 m.p.h. just off the ground on a cushion of compressed...
...keep its schedule a routine instead of a tough one, the varsity's key swimmers in the remaining events must improve enough to win, not simply place. The schedule easily permits this, however, with over a month before the next meet...