Word: boote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek new T-bird will be another entry in Ford's luxury-class race against General Motors' Cadillac, has been restyled for $30 million to look like a small version of the Continental Mark II. It comes with a standard 3OO-h.p. Thunderbird V-8 engine...
...India last summer (TIME, Aug. 12), the government poured on cold water. Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari and others refused to see him. But last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour's talk and wished him all success. Krishnamachari not only approved, but last week eased import restrictions...
...part in the deal. Mrs. Celia Hoffman and Mrs. Anna Schandler, two sisters who put every cent of $333,000 from Rose into their struggling hotel in Fallsburg, N.Y., got suspended sentences of two years. To Rose's stockholders, who lost a bank and $1,000,000 to boot, the judge extended sympathy...
...piece of meaningful business to act upon. The big organization (more than 15 million workers) was clearly a disordered house, thanks to the loss of public confidence in trade unionism engendered by revelations of corruption in the Teamsters Union and other unions. The business: whether or not to boot out the mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany, a tough guy of another stripe, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to throw out the Teamsters by a 5-to-1 margin...
...talking largely of Abraham Lincoln, the rights of man, and his devotion to democracy and the West. Overwhelmed by his sentiments and his charm, Washington's National Press Club gave him a standing ovation. Last week Sukarno was displaying his devotion to the West by energetically trying to boot out of his country all Westerners of Dutch citizenship, with never a backward thought for their rights or their properties...