Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during the mornings that Jacobs finds excitement and crisis. Twice in a single day this year he was asked to obtain rare plastic shunt valves for delicate brain operations in South America. Jacobs found a medical supply firm that had them, and persuaded a private airline passenger to carry them down in his baggage...
...about $5,000,000, Crowell Collier bought the famed Berlitz Schools of Languages, and Berlitz Publications, Inc. Berlitz, which offers courses in 46 languages, is the innovator of a "total immersion" teaching technique that drowns a student with 13 hours a day of lessons, even at mealtimes. American firms are sending more and more of their men to Berlitz before sending them overseas, and now provide 40% of the firm's business, which last year amounted to a tidy $5,000,000. In April, Berlitz plans to add a Far East division, starting in Tokyo, to its American chain...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., is not merely the world's largest corporation but traditionally the bluest of blue-chip investments. The Bell System has the most stockholders (2.8 million), the most shares of stock outstanding (530 million), and the highest total stock value ($31 billion) of any firm listed on any exchange. So many of those shares are owned by widows and elderly couples that the FCC attack on "Ma Bell" has stirred up the same sort of popular resentment as an assault on motherhood itself. "I have stacks and stacks of letters from people asking...
...meeting did Studebaker identify its potential new boss. He is George Wesley Murphy, 61, a onetime used-car salesman who, from his Honolulu base, has amassed a fortune estimated at some $30 million by parlaying a string of auto dealerships into a diversified empire ranging from an Australian motorcar firm to a 23% interest in San Francisco's Union Sugar...
...forty students denied scholarships next year because they missed a deadline they'd never heard of, Phelps may seem rigourous beyond necessity. But Harvard is surely better off not coddling such flagrant calender-scoffers. Send them to Vietnam or M.I.T. As an alumnus, I sympathize with Dean Phelps' firm campaign to keep Harvard free of time-table Schlamperei and the crypto-inverts who practice...