Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest." When one considers that he did so in the prepituitary era, it is doubly awesome...
Hardly had Israel's resignation been announced than his successor stepped up. Harold Bache, who has been in the firm for 52 years and maintains that he is "having too much fun to retire," announced that he would henceforth act as president as well as chairman and chief executive...
Jarman, 61, a Baptist deacon and collector of nonobjective painting, built his father's Nashville, Tenn., shoemaking firm into a $760 million-a-year shoe-and-clothing combine called Genesco Inc. As chairman, he controls some 1,500 retail outlets grouped under 50 firms, including I. Miller, Bonwit Teller, Roger Kent, Henri Bendel. Hoving, 68, stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall and looks every inch what he is: the supremely suave chairman of the grand Fifth Avenue jewelers, Tiffany...
...market for other supplies. South Viet Nam, in spite of the war, still exports rice to both India and Japan. In return, India has sold it irrigation pumps and sugar-mill machinery, while in other Asian countries factories are busy sewing pajamas for Vietnamese war refugees. A Korean construction firm recently won a $5,000,000 contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other a special variety that is used in water-filtration plants. Carrying the goods...
...March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance so far this year has not turned away a single U.S. firm that is seeking to invest or expand in France...