Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappy Alternatives Sir: Your balanced comparison of the alternatives that are open to us in Southeast Asia [June 5] confirms what I have believed for a long time: the only alternative to our own defeat is to accept neutralization, even if the area becomes Communist...
...million in annual sales. Though U.S. Steel last year reached a three-year peak in sales ($3.6 billion) and earnings ($203.5 million), its profit as a percentage of invested capital (4.9%) was the lowest among the majors, and as a percentage of sales (5.6%) was just average. In comparison, National Steel, which is one-quarter the size, led by both measures with returns of 8.4% and 7.5%. In 1962 U.S. Steel was forced to cut its quarterly dividend from 750 to 500, and its stock closed last week at 53 ¾-less than half of what the price was five...
...February budgeted a 0% increase in capital spending for 1964, the Commerce Department reports that they now plan a 12% gain, to almost $44 billion. The benefits will be uneven; the U.S. economy is so varied that some regions of the country are clearly doing better than others. A comparison by regions...
...Candy, Mephesto the mad professor, Irving Krankheit the mad psychiatrist (author of Masturbation Now!), a mad Buddhist monk, and several other off-white slaverers at whom she throws herself, have as much fun as a barrel of impure-minded monkeys. But the result is not uproarious enough to require comparison to Byron (as one critic has suggested), unless you have something against Byron...
...comparison the smaller $1,000,000 Dublin embassy, designed by Connecticut Architect John M. Johansen, is exciting in design and construction. Its cylindrical shape, on a 110-ft. diameter, presents, says Johansen, a "façade that turns its back on no one." Made of concrete precast in Holland, the basic structural element is a twisted I, which, multiplied and dovetailed together, turns window frames into walls...