Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal makes sense. True, Northwest will give only one share of its stock, worth about $35, for five Northeast shares, which traded at a total of almost $70 just before the announcement. Individual shareholders in Northeast will take a drubbing, and they have started to organize and protest; but even at the fire-sale price, Storer will get out with a profit. It has put $35 million into Northeast, and will receive Northwest stock currently worth around $38 million, plus a Northwest promise to repay with interest a $10 million Storer loan to Northeast...
...Inco reached a tentative but shaky agreement that would increase the average hourly pay of workers from $3.10 to $3.98 over three years. If finally accepted, the Inco deal would also be the basis for ending a parallel work stoppage at Falcon-bridge Nickel Mines, a smaller Ontario firm. Even after work is resumed, however, the delivery pipeline will not be refilled for at least five months, and the scarcity will continue...
...Search Goes On. Even before the Canadian strike, supplies of nickel were short. Inco, whose executives concede that production has not kept up with demand, is now spending about $150 million annually to increase its Canadian output from last year's 450 million pounds to 600 million in 1972. This capital outlay is larger than the $144 million that Inco earned after taxes on its sales of $767 million last year...
...fate of the successful satirist-to perish with his enemies-he had fun, while he could, slaying philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Mencken added to the gaiety of nations; he was a great man with a custard pie. Puritanism, the genteel tradition in fiction, Prohibition and even that "Bible of the booboisie and boost-erism"-the Saturday Evening Post -all became his targets...
...keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...