Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such slightly zany but practical gadgets have helped make the Matsushita Co. one of Japan's largest manufacturers of electrical goods (1957 sales: $130 million), and have given the company's founder and president, Konosuke Matsushita, 64, the highest taxable income in Japan ($500,000 last year...
...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
Older concessions, however, can suffer under the NSA regime. Once the "founder" of a new concession has graduated from the University, his profit-making idea becomes the property of the Employment Office. Techniques could become stultified, and originality driven out. Continuous repetition "can be insidious," Burke states, and standardized practices could, in effect, destroy potential profits. There should be some provision to discontinue outdated agencies...
...sale of the Trib was a poignant episode for the Reids. The first Whitelaw Reid bought the Tribune in 1873, after the death of Founder Horace Greeley; his son Ogden combined it with the remnants of James Gordon Bennett's racy Herald in 1924. But the credentials of the new buyer softened the blow. He is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, financier, sportsman, diplomat, art collector, lifetime friend of the Reids and possessor of more than $100 million. "We are happy about it," said Brownie Reid, his arm around his mother. "I think it is a fine step," said...
Blank Checks. Founded in 1859, Spotting Life began as a weak weekly imitation of one of the world's most colorful journals: Bell's Life in London. Zesty Founder John Bell began covering bare-knuckle prizefights in 1822, expanded his sheet to cover London low life from society scandals to East End bloodlettings. In 1886 Sporting Life bought Bell's copyright and was in turn bought in 1920 by Odhams Press Ltd., publisher of the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,640,707) Sunday People...