Word: annually
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...There's nothing doing at City Hall anyway," cried New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, by way of explaining his presence at opening-day rites of the 14th annual New York-Is-a-Summer-Festival festival. Bubbly high spot of the ceremony was to be the christening of the good ship Festival Queen, a commercial sightseeing barge borrowed for the day. On hand to do the honors was Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give...
...various sports. In addition, Wheaties has stepped up its sponsoring of major league baseball broadcasts. Wheaties' sales not only ended their decline, but have increased by 21% since 1958. For General Mills, the second biggest cereal maker (its other leading brand: Cheerios) behind Kellogg, that turnabout helped push annual earnings from $14.7 million to $23.3 million over the same period...
Having survived that slowdown, Bulova is now keeping better time than ever. Over the past eight years, the company has doubled annual sales, to $123 million, and increased earnings by 150%, to $3.8 million. Two men are most responsible for Bulova's improved fortunes. The first is General Omar N. Bradley, 74, who was brought into the company in 1953 by Arde Bulova, son of the Czechoslovak immigrant who founded Bulova as a small Manhattan jewelry shop in 1874. When Arde died in 1958, Bradley succeeded him as chairman. The following year, Arde's nephew, Harry Bulova Henshel...
...television sets, is withdrawing its advertising from TV. "We have been disappointed in the lackluster quality of the shows," said Chairman Ross D. Siragusa Sr. last week to a Las Vegas gathering of distributors. What also irks Siragusa, whose company has been spending nearly half of its $20 million annual advertising budget on TV time, is the deluge of commercials that are slithered in between programs by local stations. Admiral's answer: at least temporarily, the company will invest a proportionately larger amount of its budget in newspaper advertising...
...Money markets were active. Parisians, as they usually do in times of crisis, lined up to buy French gold Napoleons. The value of the pound sterling fell because of the expectation that Britain, deprived of Middle East oil, would have to pay some of its $1.7 billion annual oil bill in the dollar-area markets of South America...