Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...III, Scene 1, Prince Hamlet is alone. "To be, or not to be-what the hell?" he intoned...
...wheat referendum may have been a major turning point in the continual battle that has been waged for many years between those who believe in an agriculture producing for the competitive market and those who favor Government supply management," said Charles B. Shuman, a Sullivan, III., farmer who last week was re-elected president of the Bureau, a job he has held since 1954. But, added Shuman, "farmers dare not be complacent and self-satisfied with the wheat victory. We must eliminate existing Government production-control devices and artificial pricing mechanisms as rapidly as possible. We may never find...
Supported by his indebted friend Metternich, Salomon won the right to sell lottery bonds to the public in order to build the Austrian Empire's first important railway. Brother Jakob, who had a lease on both the Bourbons and Napoleon III, laid down France's first railways (on which he made a great profit by artificially running up prices of the shares). The British Rothschilds ignored the country's industrial boom, but propped the young government of the U.S. with loans and, in combination with de Rothschild Frères, made loans to Brazil. "Money...
...huge sums ("We've just never been turned down when we wanted to borrow," he says), and, most importantly, by luring a small army of dedicated business school graduates to Idaho. Fourteen Harvard men have followed Hansberger westward, including five this year; one recent recruit is Charles Tillinghast III, son of the president of Trans World Airlines. Working hard, the young men have revitalized the company with selling flair and bright ideas, have cracked their way into markets once considered unattainable...
...enjoys the job. Searle started at twelve as a summertime tablet mixer, became the $35-a-week treasurer of the small firm after graduating in pharmacy from the University of Michigan. When he took over as president in 1936, he prescribed a strong tonic to make the Skokie, III., company grow. He trimmed its product line from 800 to 16 quality items. The list has since grown to 30, and now includes Enovid, a contraceptive pill whose booming international sales have also boosted the sale of other Searle products. Last year the company earned $13.8 million on sales...