Word: annually
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Lille's Socialist Mayor Augustin Laurent and most city councilors boycotted the welcoming ceremonies, and crowds were sparse when De Gaulle's black convertible Simca rolled up in a drumming rain. De Gaulle looked glum himself as he toured the annual Lille trade fair and peered myopically through thick-lensed horn-rims at model rail ways, bridal gowns of Lille lace, and a pair of red-trimmed pelicans that expressed the mood of the day by turning their backs on the President...
...strike threatened to drag on for at least another week, the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association came to town and provided one ironic footnote after another. While local newsmen were worrying about their jobs, publishers from all over the U.S. were complaining that they had something like two job openings for every available newspaperman. Nor does a merger necessarily mean less employment. Three hundred jobs were lost when the Los Angeles Times folded the Los Angeles Mirror in 1962; since then, the Times has hired 400 more people...
...start a series of unity conversations with the United Presbyterian Church that might reconcile the two bodies, which split during the Civil War. This time, delegates voted to enter the Consultation on Church Union that is considering the Blake proposal. Already committed to the Consultation, which holds its fifth annual meeting this week, are the United Presbyterians...
...largest corporate merger ever in U.S. business, forming the nation's biggest new company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul 12% of the nation's freight and serve 2,816 communities from Montreal to Cairo, Ill., and from Chesapeake Bay to uppermost Michigan. The deal between two century-old rivals climaxes nine years of negotiations, which...
Moving its annual meeting into the Southwest for the first time, IBM last week gathered its stockholders in Houston. The news they heard from the world's leading computer maker was more than big enough to suit the occasion. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. first announced that the company is about to split its stock for the tenth time, this time on a 3-2 basis. Moreover, announced Watson, IBM next month will issue another 1,300,000 shares worth $350 million, will give stockholders first opportunity to buy them. The offering will be the largest underwriting...