Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black had seven customers, sales of $15,000. This year, with more than 800 customers clamoring for "magamps" for radar, sonar and computer systems, Magnetics Inc. employs 320 people, will see its sales soar to $5,000,000. Says Black: "It never crossed my mind that we'd fail, but I never expected this...
...born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time...
There were two good reasons why Sukarno's plan seemed doomed to fail: first, he insisted on including Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers in the Emergency Cabinet; second was a rising crescendo of protest from separatist leaders in Sumatra, the Celebes and elsewhere, who decried the Emergency Cabinet as unconstitutional...
...Corp., an oldtime concern with $13 million in debts, shored up its tottering finances, became president in 1954. By trading stock in the Hoffman Corp., he acquired 23 profitable subsidiaries, manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans. But somewhere along the line, Hyman Marcus' magic touch began to fail. Day after day in recent months, U.S. Hoffman stock has been among the most heavily traded on the stock exchange, dropping from a high of 22 ⅛ a year ago to last week...
...1960s, when the big crop of World War II babies comes of age, vastly expanding the U.S. labor supply, the secretary shortage should solve itself. But meanwhile, businessmen would do well to reassert hiring standards, loosen up on age restrictions. If they fail to do so, they may have forgotten how good a good secretary...