Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...flames over Muroc come from "afterburners" on Lockheed F94 all-weather fighters that are being service-tested to determine their capabilities under simulated combat conditions. Soon such flames will be common wherever jet planes need to use their full power. Developed only a few years ago, the afterburner has proved itself a dependable source of extra power for climbing or combat...
...Christiana Securities Co., the Du Fonts' family holding company, which owns more than 27% of Du Font's common stock, paid a year-end dividend of $174.25, bringing the total for the year to $407.25 v. $258.60 in 1949. Price of Christiana stock: $5,400 a share...
...Milwaukee has paid off all arrears on its preferred stock, has $25 million in cash, and this year will probably show a net income of $15 million after all fixed charges. The future looked so bright that Crowley announced a $2 dividend on the common stock, the first the Milwaukee has paid in 33 years. Obviously, shrewd Leo Crowley hoped that grateful stockholders, when they get voting power in May, would vote continuance of his regime...
...Grundy's boned corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
...Debate Council dropped a unanimous decision to Princeton in the first defense of its 1949-50 Ivy League Conference title last night in the Loverett Junior Common Room...