Word: duns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroke he had suffered in January, he had himself brushed aside a question about his successor with the smiling reply: "My lifetime is not ending so very soon." Last week he had helicoptered back to Delhi from a four-day vacation in the cool hills surrounding Dehra Dun. He woke as usual at 6:30 a.m., but instead of performing his customary yoga exercises, complained of pains in his back. Within minutes, he collapsed in a coma from which he never recovered. At 2 p.m., he was dead. A Cabinet minister rose in Parliament and announced in a choked voice...
...priority was raising a library. Pitts armed his students with tin cans so that they could dun Negro families for "a mile of dimes." Bull Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, vetoed the drive. "What about all these kids with their tin cans?" Pitts asked, but Connor stood firm, and Pitts had to call off the drive. Incensed at Connor's meanness, people all over the country chipped in books. Yale students collected 6,000 books and delivered them personally; the Miles library now has 28,000 volumes...
...boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...
...Angus Dun, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. . . . C.L.D...
...businesses go broke? Taking an annual pulse count of U.S. business, Dun & Bradstreet last week blamed the great majority of business failures on incompetent or inexperienced management. Of 15,782 failures in 1962, 91.3% were due directly to management fumbles that caused poor sales, a poor competitive position, crushing overhead or inventory problems. The highest industrial failure rates were among the makers of furniture, electrical machinery, shoes and transportation equipment; on the retail level, the failure list was headed by children's and ladies' wear stores, sporting-goods shops and furniture stores...