Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the identities of the institution and its home have mingled. To blaspheme the place is common practice on the part of those who adore it. Some refer to it as the "out house." But let anyone suggest changing quarters and a department of disparate factions will respond as one. As Professor Bate puts it, "It would seem like sacrilege...
...companies will slice Standard's earnings to about $1 a share in 1958. In 1959 Chandler expects to do better, though convertible stock, which Standard has issued to buy one company and stock options, could dilute per-share earnings by as much as 35% if converted into common. Chandler expects potential profits from new products to help make up for any dilution. Among them: plastic-coated punch cards that would last longer than present business-machine cards, and paperboard containers for oil. In Chandler's office are six paperboard containers, shaped like milk cartons, which have held...
...million jet fleet of ten Lockheed Electras, which go into service this year, and five Douglas DC-8s, due to arrive in 1960. Northwest has pinned down $84 million from 15 banks, twelve insurance companies and the sale of 457,873 shares of preferred stock (its common stock rose from a '58 low of 10⅛ to 27⅛ last week). The line will get more than $10 million by trading in its nine double-deck Boeing Stratocruisers to Lockheed and five DC-7s to Douglas. Though the used-plane market is glutted, Northwest swung the trade-in because...
...guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self-indulgent man who loved nothing but humanity . . . She had been unlucky. She could have loved a gambler, an opium addict, a common thief, a drunkard-but no, it had to be an idealist...
...known as "Johnson") helped to set him up for the onerous business of living in the shadow of his brother's personality. Far from having David's "youthful charm and buoyancy," George was "shy and hesitant" and had a severe stammer. All Bertie had was common sense, religious faith and a Navy sense of duty...