Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Streeter Blair had tried half a dozen careers. He had taught Latin, managed a haberdashery, edited a boys' magazine called The Knicker, ended up operating a successful antique shop in Los Angeles...
Their presence is most conspicuous in the Defense Department, where Deputy Secretary David Packard, the millionaire co-founder of California's Hewlett-Packard Co., is only one of half a dozen business executives in the inner circle. Among the many others at high levels is Nathaniel Samuels, former managing partner of Wall Street's Kuhn, Loeb, a deputy Under Secretary of State. The new Under Secretary of Labor is James Hodgson, a former Lockheed Aircraft vice president for industrial relations...
...relatives. Crosby in 1958 had taken over the Mary Carter Paint Co. ("Buy One-Get One Free"); he later bought most of Huntington Hartford's interests on Paradise Island and sold the paint-making part of the business. Resorts International appeared to be well managed, but more than half of its profits depended on roulette and craps tables. It had a call on about $93 million worth of Pan Am stock, while its own net worth was only $6,000,000. Pan Am's Gray could find "nothing of benefit" in an affiliation with Crosby...
Until now, enzymes have been little used in the U.S. except by commercial dry cleaners. Soapmakers feared that American housewives would not have the patience to soak clothes for at least half an hour-and sometimes much longer-before washing them. Apparently the manufacturers were mistaken. The U.S. presoak battle began when P. &G. tested Biz in Syracuse in 1967 and found a surprisingly strong market. Biz and Colgate-Palmolive's Axion then competed in Omaha, the soap industry's other key test market. (Omaha, explains a Colgate official, "tells us what the rest of the world will...
...that's just the half of it-or more precisely, the quarter of it. By cashing in on a select few of the hundreds of requests for movies, books, testimonials and guest appearances, Barnes figures that O.J. will soon be earning three times as much as he will playing football. This summer, for instance, TV viewers will see Simpson break into the clear in a new Chevy, the first of a series of commercials for which Chevrolet is paying him a reported...