Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proved a dud. By Dec. 31, only 8,000,000 had enrolled, and the rate was a discouraging 120,000 a week. The Government reacted with follow-up mailings to those who had not responded to the first one, printed promotional pamphlets in 22 languages, retained a public relations firm and hired an additional 1,800 employees for the last weeks of the job. The Office of Economic Opportunity contributed $2,000,000 and 8,000 workers. Using planes and dog sleds for transportation in remote areas of Alaska, and a horse to reach at least one Maine community, Government...
...collected works as an album of brilliant satire; others dig him as a kind of beat Savonarola; some consider him a blatant pornographer. The show, in fact, almost did not come off. County officials threatened until opening night to ban it, held off only in the face of a firm trustee and museum-staff declaration that "a great museum, like a great library, acquires, displays and studies, but does not pass judgment; only society, present and future, can do that...
...long concentrated on railroad stocks, once owned substantial holdings in the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio, still has $27 million worth of Missouri Pacific Railroad stock. Now there is more green in other pastures. Alleghany's biggest single holding, worth $2.6 billion, is Investors Diversified Services, a management firm that oversees five investment companies, including the world's biggest mutual fund. Alleghany has also invested in real estate and life insurance companies. What Kirby and Ireland want to do is to free Alleghany from its railroad ties and put its money to more use in these other areas...
Pressing Problems. Amid all this prosperity and progress, the textile makers do have their troubles. Imports have almost quadrupled in the last decade, as foreign producers, with lower wage costs, have undercut American prices in cotton, wool, and synthetic fabrics. To keep their own wage costs down, U.S. textile firms have built nearly all their new plants in the Southeast and have vigorously opposed union attempts to organize them. Only a couple of weeks ago, the National Labor Relations Board, in an unusually strong order, ruled J. P. Stevens guilty of "flagrant" violation of federal labor laws, accused the firm...
Eurofinance men pore over speeches, annual reports, newspaper stories and miscellany for clues to corporate activity, maintain 10,000 files on British and Continental companies. The firm's 20 analysts and four economists, most of whom hold doctorates and speak three or four languages, piece together all the items they can find on a company being surveyed, spend up to six months preparing a preliminary report. When this work is done, they take their findings to the company for comment-and usually hit so close that the company is impressed enough to cooperate. Says Hungarian-born Deputy Director Anthony...