Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With fireworks exploding the morning sunlight, a 16-float parade snaking past new-laid sod and sudden flowers, and the beaming presence of the Vice President of the United States, the New York World's Fair came out for the second round last week. Everybody in volved - from terrible-tempered Robert Moses down - was determined to profit by experience. And profit was of the essence: the fair's first season ran up a rocking $17.5 million deficit and sent four pavilions into bankruptcy...
...float down with her par-headed umbrella, but Mary Poppins is coming to Radcliffe next year...
President Johnson immediately offered U.S. assistance, and Frei responded with a request for "flour, condensed milk for children, and vehicles to transport water." Yet Chile's President did not ask-or expect-a massive infusion of emergency funds. He intends to float a special bond issue at home to finance reconstruction, thus leaving the $1 billion national budget intact. "We cannot appeal to the world every four years to help us lift ourselves from the ground," he said. "We Chileans ourselves will raise the towns that were destroyed...
...balance back into new plants and equipment-the cost of expansion and new model introduction reduced its net working capital from $557 million to $385 million. Townsend has instituted a new company-wide cost-cutting program, but he realizes that economy alone will not suffice. In April Chrysler will float a new stock issue of 5,611,000 shares that should bring in another $308 million to help pay the price of success...
...twelve solid days in an extraordinary national preoccupation with what the Daily Mail called "the most celebrated eagle of his day." Britons sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain's wideawake malted-milk firm rushed out advertisements urging "Give...