Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crosses had no meaning. They were merely the latest fad. Fashion, Chikin, fashion-and profit. GUM Buyer Klavdia Mikhailovna picked up the trinkets for 330 each, presumably from a Czech costume-jewelry firm, which has been flooding Eastern Europe with such baubles. Klavdia put them on sale for $3.33, turning a neat 900% profit for the Socialist mother land. In the Soviet Union, where selling Bibles can lead to banishment, Klavdia was just a little too avantgarde. By week's end Chikin could report in a follow-up story that the doublecross to dialectical materialism had been avenged. Klavdia...
...York public accountant, he graduated from Wesleyan in 1948, taught English there for a year, then went on to Yale Law School. Etherington served for a year as clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, later went to work for a Wall Street law firm that specialized in investment problems. Eventually he moved on to serve as secretary and vice president of the Big Board under Funston. He was named head of Amex...
...most likely to succeed Funston, who is expected to retire from the Big Board in the fall. Etherington, however, says that he has always been interested in education, and sees no radical discontinuity between investment and learning. He left law practice to join the exchange in the firm belief that its "whole raison d'étre is public service.'' Education, he adds, is simply the highest type of service...
Tillinghast went from Columbia Law School to a $175-a-month job with the Manhattan law firm headed by Charles Evans Hughes Jr., son of the onetime Chief Justice. Except for 29 months as a deputy assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas E. Dewey, he spent the next 22 years practicing corporate law. It was through law that Tillinghast eventually became associated with TWA-and was brought into classic corporate conflict with TWA's eccentric genius, Howard Hughes...
...Dirty Trick. His eye soon lit on Tillinghast, then vice president for international operations of the Bendix Corp., Detroit-based maker of aviation, missile and auto components. Breech, as a former Bendix president, had been so impressed with Tillinghast's legal work for the firm that years earlier he had persuaded him to move to Detroit, where Tillinghast subsequently joined the company...