Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, it has been one of the most useful of all-purpose tools. Every office worker and housewife has taken advantage of this fact for years, but it took the Germans to make a definitive study. Alarmed at the rate at which its clips were disappearing, a Munich manufacturing firm sent spies out to trace the fate of 100,000 of them...
Arthur Carlsberg, 32, of Los Angeles, has earned $5,000,000 in the business in which fortunes have traditionally been made fastest: real estate. He is chairman of Rammco Investment Corp., a Southern California land-investment firm that has shown a canny ability to pick farmland plots that later boom into building sites. Exuberant demand for choice land-which has helped send the price of housing sites in the U.S. up 15% annually during the 1960s-enables a land speculator to multiply his money in a hurry...
...former disk jockey, has exploited a high degree of ability in a specialized technical field. He is president and 75% owner of Fabri-Tek Inc., a $16 million-a-year company that is the nation's largest manufacturer of memory cores for computers. His stock holdings in the firm are worth $47 million...
...federally subsidized Argonne National Laboratories outside Chicago heard of Mickelson's expertise in this narrow specialty, invited him in 1955 to start building experimental computer parts, offered to supply the raw materials. Mickelson figured that the demand for memory cores would be so great that even a small firm could cash in on it. He set up Fabri-Tek in his basement, working nights and weekends while he held his daytime job at Remington Rand. His total investment in the new company was for "some wire, solder, tweezers, and a little pair of nippers-altogether...
...City has sent the alternative plans to a highly-respected Chicago firm of traffic consultants. If the consultants say the new designs are technically acceptable, and if the City officially adopts them as preferable to the Brookline-Elm Street route, the DPW will be forced to take a second look...