Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inflationary Strains. The U.S. economy is indeed moving much too fast for its own good, and three Washington reports last week reflected the resulting strains. They showed the fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole...
...rivals fired public-relations broadsides at each other, Vogüé dropped Saint-Gobain's traditional secrecy about company finances and prospects and wooed its long-ignored and meagerly rewarded stockholders with good news. He promised a 25% stock dividend and predicted that profits would double by 1971 to $50 million. His unprecedented Sunday open house drew tens of thousands of fascinated Frenchmen to S-G plants all over France...
...vest open, his bow tie flaring and his Havana cigar lit, Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone scrunches down in his high-backed chair at his company's nondescript headquarters on Chicago's North Side. "Wealth is power," he proclaims. "Wealth is good. With money you can do good-your whole horizon changes...
...only sing classical." The Spoonies, two stubble-chinned men in their 60s named Scottie and Georgie, clattered through Waltzing Matilda, one whacking a banjo, the other clicking two bent dessert spoons like castanets. The evening was a smash success. "After all," says Partridge, "if they weren't any good, they wouldn't be buskers. Bad buskers starve...
Mark Stein is great as Paul, an endearing employee of great ambition. He gets disgusted and wonders why he bothers to work days and study nights; he wants to run off to the West but instead strives like any good American young man to rise in the firm...