Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firm Price. The dollar is the only currency of a major world power that has escaped formal devaluation since the end of World War II. The U.S. supplies more than half of the gold in the London pool which was set up in 1961 to help stabilize the price of the metal within a few cents of its official U.S. price: $35 per oz. For 33 years that fixed price has been the cornerstone of the free world's international monetary arrangements. The U.S. is pledged to swap gold for dollars, at that price, to any foreign government that...
...whether the medicine was strong enough to cure Britain's deep-seated economic ills. In a larger world sense, the far more important question was whether the dollar would show signs of weakening. At week's end the evidence clearly indicated that it would hold firm...
...choose to be a common company," says Ewing Marion Kauffman, 51, founder, president and principal stockholder of Kansas City-based Marion Laboratories, Inc. "It is our right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
With the last $4,300 of his Navy winnings, Kauffman founded his own company, sold vitamin tablets and liver shots from the basement of his home. As sales increased, Kauffman also sold seven friends on investing in his struggling firm; each $1,000 of their original investment today is worth...
Scarborough happens rather well both inside and out. His process of in-depth study, synthesis, and design combined with his office's use of "more bloody system programming and computer time" than any other firm in architecture-conscious Toronto...