Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government are the 117 forms that it takes for each ship to enter and clear a U.S. port, some written in language that goes back unchanged to 1799. One of these commits every vessel to include in the crew's mess each Sunday "¾ ounce of coffee (green berry), ½ pint of molasses, four ounces of onions and one ounce of lard...
There were also dramatic differences between the two. The most notable: the Viking Princess's efficient, seasoned crew, mostly Norwegian, and its stout red-mustached skipper, a veteran of 36 years at sea. By contrast, the Castle was commanded by a green Greek who received a stinging rebuke for negligence from the U.S. Coast Guard for, among other indiscretions, holding no fire drill for his passengers and being among the first to leave the ship...
STOCKS More Green in Other Pastures
...swap proposal, however, has even broader ramifications than the Penn-Central merger. Alleghany long concentrated on railroad stocks, once owned substantial holdings in the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio, still has $27 million worth of Missouri Pacific Railroad stock. Now there is more green in other pastures. Alleghany's biggest single holding, worth $2.6 billion, is Investors Diversified Services, a management firm that oversees five investment companies, including the world's biggest mutual fund. Alleghany has also invested in real estate and life insurance companies. What Kirby and Ireland want to do is to free Alleghany from...
...there are quite a few indications that the trading-stamp industry is running into difficulties. Last year 500 grocery stores of various sizes dropped stamps, promised lower prices instead. Last week Sperry & Hutchinson Co., whose Green Stamps account for one third of the industry's business, issued a prospectus required before it can sell 1,000,000 shares of stock and seek eventual representation on the New York Stock Exchange. Opening its books for the first time in 70 years, S & H President William S. Beinecke reported that its sales-$330 million last year-are higher than ever...