Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side. This concept developed logically enough when defense planners decreed that space projects should not be allowed to interfere with the military's urgent task of catching up on missile production. But today the U.S. missile program has gathered substantial momentum, while the Russians have demonstrated a firm intention to use space as a primary cold-war weapon...
...Pound's firm belief that one should never be idle. "I've kept busy all my he said. "I might find it hard to find something to occupy myself if I weren't busy at law. I've always had something...
...reports from industry's accountants were uniformly good. Thanks to big defense orders and strong consumer sales, General Electric Chairman Ralph Cordiner was able to announce record nine-month earnings of $189,512,000, up 17% to $2.16 per share for the nation's biggest electrical-equipment firm. Giant International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared a 60? extra dividend, the first since...
Salmon in the Square. The two first teamed up in 1957. Gossage, who had run a successful campaign for Australia's Qantas airlines as a vice president of San Francisco's Cunningham and Walsh, became the firm's writer and thinker; Weiner, who had his own small agency for eleven years, handled the business details and helped kook up the campaigns. For one of their first accounts, Oregon's Blitz-Weinhard brewery, they placed an ad in The New Yorker that read: "Keep Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest...
...Instinct." That did not stop Willy. After the Berlin blockade, he bought the old Silesian trading firm, Otto R. Krause, then proceeded (with Allied permission) to ship $16 million worth of steel to Grermany's Communist zone. His profit: $1,000,000. With the money he bought a steel mill, a rolling mill, a machine shop. During the Korean war, Schlieker shipped millions of tons of U.S. coal to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of German steel back to the States at handsome profits. When the war was over, he unloaded 50,000 tons of top-priced steel...