Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those days whose only benefit will be to keep the Crimson from overconfidence during the rest of the season. The team made five errors, and three more that were kept out of the records only by the rules of official scoring...
...from this June 30 of the present wage agreement, without any increase in benefits. Although the recovery is making "moderate progress," said the letter, there is a disturbing "bulge of synthetic demand" created by fear of a steel strike, and it could lead to "decline and dislocation" later. To keep the economy on a steady course, said the steel companies, "We believe it would be wholesome if a settlement could be reached...
...voiced in its ads, is all to the good. But the Street and the corporations it serves can do a great deal more to curb uninformed speculation by their own efforts, instead of wagging a finger at the public. When irresponsible rumors boom a stock, company officials often keep quiet rather than making the prompt denials that would cool it off. Many a stock has been run up on wild rumors when there is so little stock available that any buying or selling sends it rollercoasting. The exchange has the power to suspend trading when the floating supply of stock...
...Ayer expects to sell his new purchases to charter and cargo lines, will keep some planes himself and lease them to carriers for peak seasonal loads. For corporations, he will do a Convair over completely (bar, hifi, etc.), raise its fuel capacity to give it 50% greater range, put it in anyone's hangar for $385,000. Abroad, he is counting heavily on regional lines that cannot yet afford jets, but need better planes than they now have...
...blacks. His desert comes powerfully alive in brief, sharp descriptions, and without leaving his brutal, well-plotted story for a moment he makes his grim but debatable point with clarity: if Africa is lost to the West, it is because stupidity and brutality have been the means employed to keep...