Word: dition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Does G.M. feel a responsibility not to compete so hard as to drive marginal producers out of the business? Snapped Donner: "And when did you stop beating your wife? If you are thinking of Studebaker-Packard, we didn't drive them to their present con dition. They drove themselves there. Did you ever stop to wonder what they did with the profits of the lush war years, if they reinvested them in the business...
...William Elaine Richardson departed one day last week for his office, the main Mexico City branch of the First National City Bank of New York. As usual, there was a brisk flutter of papers and a businesslike reaching for telephones when he arrived; Richardson maintains the no-nonsense tra dition of banking, runs his office with taut efficiency. But on that day last week there was more than routine importance to his arrival. It was his last; at 65, the banker who opened First National City's first Mexican branch 27 years ago was hanging up his Homburg...
...Last Farthing. In Sheffield, England, Steuart Davis admitted to a judge that he had spent the last $20,000 of his fortune in seven months and turned to street cleaning to thwart his wife's am-Dition to get alimony, added: "She's no Rita Hayworth...