Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground"-and he has rarely stood still since World War II. Picked as president of Riken Sensitized Paper Co. when the U.S. broke up the Riken cartel after...
...performances. Three second-year men, John Ogden, Pete Huvelle, and Bruce Miller, easily swept the 1000 yard run, with Ogden turning in a very fast 2:18.1. Keith Chiappa, also a sophomore, ran a close second to Dartmouth's Tom Holzel in the 600 yard run, and ran his fastest time of the year...
...market also has more parochial but equally important reasons for feeling confident about a continuance of one of its fastest rises in history (100 points in the last 61 trading sessions). Leading those reasons are the encouraging earnings reports coming from U.S. executive suites. Another omen is the flock of new stock issues beginning to appear in appreciable numbers for the first time since Blue Monday-a sure sign, says E. F. Hutton Partner Robert Stovall, "that businessmen think the climate of the market is going to be good...
...ribbons were half so fidgety as a pair of Illinois businessmen named Frank W. Harding and Clinton Tomson. "One good fire and we would have had it," says Harding. The reason: Harding, 51, and Tomson, 53, are partners in the American Livestock Insurance Co. of Geneva, Ill., biggest and fastest growing of the U.S. companies that specialize in insuring animals...
...recaptured technological superiority, and the machines that the company makes in overseas plants to be sold in the U.S. compete with the Japanese in price. Singer now holds more than 40% of the U.S. sewing-machine market and is picking up another 2% each year. Abroad, where the fastest growth in sewing-machine sales is expected, Singer accounts for 25% of the free world market...