Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss of Honor. Working twelve-hour days, short, blunt-mannered Fritz-Aurel rebuilt the giant, expanded into industrial machinery and helicopters, sold 44% of his stock to such U.S. investors as Morgan Guaranty Trust and Yale University when German bankers refused to finance further expansion. Goergen lived like the entrepreneur he was. His suburban Düsseldorf villa, ransacked by police for evidence, is filled with rich rugs, works of art and salons the size of tennis courts...
...involved in fraud, especially since defense contracts represent only 15% of Henschel's business. "It would hardly seem worthwhile for a company as large and important as Henschel to cheat for such a minor sum," said a Bonn corporate lawyer. Many Germans were jarred, too, by the blunt manner of Goergen's arrest and imprisonment, especially since no charge was filed against him. The uneasiness about how he was being treated was heightened last week when he suffered a heart attack in his cell and was transferred to the prison hospital...
Pitching to Women. Consolidated and eleven other major companies, which together ring up 75% of all cigar sales, make a range of cigars from diminutive cigarillos to big, blunt coronas. The sales gains are due almost entirely to the cigarillos, particularly those with plastic tips, that have been grabbed up by reformed cigarette smokers. In some cities, cigarillo sales are up as much as 400%, and wholesalers are rationing supplies. Many cigar makers just cannot keep up with demand; unlike high-speed automated cigarette lines, cigar making still involves slow hand operation...
...Henry Ford wants you to be blunt," says Iacocca, "and I happen to be blunt. We don't try to Alphonse and Gaston each, other, and we don't try to beat around the bush." Iacocca marshals his arguments so well and pushes his ideas so hard that Ford once stopped him just as he was winding up to make a speech and said: "All right, Lee, now let's get the facts, or you'll sell us without our knowing them...
...want to get you hooked on us" was the blunt challenge that greeted us five from Harvard (William Becker DivSch, William Whitney GSAS, Michael Boyd '66, Soheil Zendeh '65, and myself) upon our arrival in St Augustine, March 31. Hosca Williams, a Negro integrationist leader with boundless energy and a broad smile was briefing us on the local situation. Although the demonstrations during the preceding week had succeeded in integrating only one or two restaurants and a church, the persistence of local Negroes and about thirty New England white chaplains and students had at least made an impression...