Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more plentiful and a general reduction in corporate debt that puts many firms in a stronger position to expand. In addition, foreigners, worried about the political and economic uncertainties in Europe and elsewhere, are shopping in greater numbers to buy up or into American companies. For example, a U.S. crane producer, Time Manufacturing, recently sold out to an Irish auto distributor, and a Swiss pharmaceutical corporation is now dickering to buy an American food firm...
...Mexican doctor was outraged at the apparently poor care given Hughes. As he worked to save the patient, Hughes' retinue seemed stunned and helpless. One of his physicians, Dr. Norman Crane, was weeping...
...blue ribbon to a tree," Schenk said, "but if some asshole on a crane backs into it, some asshole on a crane has backed into it, and Jacobsen can't bring it back...
...tapped to succeed Bo Callaway as campaign manager (see story page 19), has asked Texas Senator John Tower, House Minority Leader John Rhodes and Republican Whip Robert Michel to "open a dialogue" with such Reagan partisans as North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Illinois Republican Congressman Philip Crane. Nine Republican Governors advised Reagan to quit...
...keep going up. U.S. companies will probably schedule $13 billion worth of new stock issues for sale in 1976-already well ahead of the $9.2 billion actually marketed in all of last year. Stock splits are also on the rise; they have been announced by such companies as Bendix, Crane, Amsted, and U.S. Steel. Most important, corporate directors are encouraging investors by announcing the largest number of dividend increases in 20 years...