Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mirage dry lake, 100 miles north of Los Angeles, the Southern California chapter, which has 250 members, last week was able to mount a 44-plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise...
...Arnold lives the life of a gentleman farmer on his 107-acre spread outside Nashville. He performs one week out of the month, spends most of the rest of his time answering the 200 pieces of fan mail he gets every week. With an annual income of more than $200,000, he tried his hand at investing, succeeded so well that he now sits on the boards of three companies, owns or has interests in an auto agency, a music-publishing house, a ranch, a record-pressing firm, a water utility, a realty company, and a 400-unit apartment house...
Typical was the Ford Motor Co.'s annual stockholders' meeting in Detroit. First of all, President Arjay Miller got up and glowingly announced that the Fords had gone by at a wonderful rate in the first quarter of 1966: on sales of $3.2 billion, profits stood at a first-quarter record of $210 million, or 9% better than during the same period last year. Then Ford Chairman Henry Ford II rose and sent the winds gusting in the other direction. Blaming most of the auto industry's troubles on the safety squabble ("I have no other...
...many consider it, inflationary-side were figures indicating that during 1966's first quarter, pretax corporate profits were 11% higher than a year ago. The gross national product, was up $16.7 billion to an annual rate of $714 billion, but Washington expects the pace to slow in the second quarter...
...only three months ago was insisting that the U.S. would whip the eight-year-old problem in 1966, appeared last week at a Washington news conference with Commerce Secretary John Connor, and reported morosely that the deficit in the nation's balance of payments jumped to an annual rate of $2.3 billion in the first quarter, up from last year's $1.3 billion. Fowler also conceded that the U.S. has surrendered just about all hopes of achieving a balance as long as the war in Viet Nam continues. The direct and indirect costs of Viet Nam, he estimated...