Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop has also dropped five other items his firm makes, Dietz said, including the "Six-Footer" doll and the "Little Laurie" doll, which he called the best-selling doll in the store. The Coop is his best customer, he added, and said he would like to continue selling to them...
Within the next two weeks, Ackley and his fellow council members will have to give President Johnson a firm economic forecast for the year ahead and advise him about what policies to follow. Their decisions will be particularly crucial because the U.S. economy is now moving into a new stage. Production is scraping up against the top levels of the nation's capacity, and federal spending and demand are soaring because of the war in Viet Nam. The economists' problem is to draw a fine line between promoting growth and preventing a debilitating inflation. As they search for new ways...
...Bills, Bigger Profit. Successful bartering requires shrewd contacts and lightning communications. The largest, oldest and best-known barterer is Lausanne's Andre & Co., an 88-year-old firm that last year handled transactions worth $1 billion. Brothers Georges and Jean Andre have 5,000 worldwide agents, a fleet of 15 freighters, leased telex lines to North and South America and, reputedly, Switzerland's largest telephone bill. Bartering has particularly profited from increased East-West trade because Comecon nations like to do at least part of their dealing in merchandise. In their latest transaction, the Andre brothers shipped diesel...
Died. Andrew Wells Robertson, 85, chairman and chief executive of Westinghouse Electric Corp. from 1929 to 1945, a Pittsburgh lawyer who guided the firm through the Depression into the spectacular growth years of World War II, tripling its sales with new consumer appliances (dishwashers, electric ranges), the first industrial atom smasher (the 1937 Van de Graaff generator) and a vast array of defense equipment; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh...
...Kohler Co. remained locked in a mastodontic duel for more years than most Americans care to remember. The longest major labor dispute in U.S. history, the Kohler strike began in April 1954, when workers at the plumbing-fixtures plant stormed out in a disagreement with the family-owned firm over a series of union demands for higher wages and fringe benefits. After a two-month closure, the factory resumed production with nonunion labor, touching off six years of intermittent violence in the company town of Kohler. Pickets wore gasmasks, clashed bloodily with non-strikers; in one battle 300 people were...