Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Canada, and last week $100 million's worth from Australia. They also dropped broad hints that they wanted to buy from the U.S. With that, top U.S. wheat dealers formed a negotiating team whose spokesman was Burton Joseph, president of Minneapolis' big I. S. Joseph Co., Inc. The team went to Ottawa, got a bid from the same Soviet traders who had dealt with Canada. The Russians were in such a hurry that they wanted the U.S. wheat shipments to start...
...muscle of the actual moon voyage will be the F-l engine now being developed by North American Aviation, 'Inc. Each F-l will have 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust, and a cluster of five will lift the great moon-bound rockets off the ground. But the F-l also vibrates, sometimes so violently during static tests that it threatens to explode. North American believes that the trouble will soon be licked, but this is a lonely confidence...
...Vappi Construction Co., Inc., the builders of the dormitories, credit their record-breaking speed to good weather, good working conditions, and "good architectural planning" by the firm of Sert, Jackson, and Gourley, which designed the complex...
...themselves on being more flexible than their bigger brothers, shifting quickly to meet changes in demand. What worries them is that the large companies which are computerizing their operations may soon be able to react as rapidly as they themselves can. Says President Andrew L. Hannon of Hannon Engineering Inc., a Los Angeles maker of public-address systems: "We can move fast and stay ahead of big companies. But we can't compete once we meet them head...
Outside the South, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., is scarcely known. Seventh in sales among the nation's grocery chains, it ranks well behind such billionaires as A. & P., Safeway and Kroger. But for six straight years Winn-Dixie, with 609 stores in ten Southern states, has topped every large U.S. merchandising firm on a gauge that profit-minded businessmen watch more closely than any other: return on invested capital. In 1962 the chain earned 21% on its capital, almost twice as high a percentage as A. & P.'s. Last fortnight Winn-Dixie, which has increased its dividend...