Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stated flatly that "no man in the White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
...FRANCIS-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Francis translates the furious vitality of his abstract expressionism into bright, brash prints. Reds, yellows, blues and greens splash across new lithographs; one, Bright Jade, Gold, Ghost, resplendent in five colors, is shown in five variations. Through...
...grumbles are even louder ashore. With gold-rush enthusiasm, businessmen overborrowed-took short-term loans at interest as high as 28%-to overbuild. "They are operating in a sea of lOUs," says Victor Riveros, editor of Peru's fishing-industry journal Pesca. The industry now has a capacity of 2,000,000 tons of fish meal a year, or nearly double what it expects to sell. As a result, most of the country's 156 plants are operating at half speed; 30 are closed altogether. Last week workers marched in and seized one plant on account of three...
Going for Gold. No one took greater pleasure in the victory than Shinji Hi-raki, the company's founder and president-and no one has more confidence in Riccar's athletes. "I am sure that Yodasan will do better the next time," he said. Hiraki has a special reason for believing that playing games is good msiness. A third of his 18,000 employees take part in a company-sponsored after-hours sports program, and the top 100 or so athletes are housed in special dormitories and given practicing hours off with pay. Barring upsets and injuries, Riccar...
...taken over a string of race horses that had been bought by a California banker with embezzled funds, has also held resort hotels, antiques, furs and whisky warehouses. Occasionally the agency is even able to operate such enterprises more profitably than the original owners. It turned an abandoned Idaho gold mine into a tourist attraction, and still owns a Texas oilfield that earns $3,000 monthly...