Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ashland Oil Inc. ($100,000); Gulf Oil Corp ($100,000); Braniff Airways Inc. ($40,000); American Airlines ($55,000); Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000); 3M Co. ($30,000); Phillips Petroleum Co. ($100,000). Employees of an eighth, the American Ship Building Co., testified that they cooperated in donating $26,200 in corporate funds to Nixon's campaign, but the company itself has admitted no wrongdoing...
...would slow from 6% in 1973 to 2% or so next year. Those members who were willing last week to gaze into the future prophesied that the boycott would trim at least 1% from their earlier forecasts of real growth. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes its flow by then, the shortages will have already done enough to prevent the economy from growing that much...
...every night watching television " Strong stuff? Too strong for Groucho Marx, who did indeed say those things but wishes that a duck had dropped from the ceiling to stop him. Groucho cited the examples- and more- in court papers filed in his $15 million damage suit against Darien House Inc., publisher of The Marx Bros. Scrapbook ($13.95) for failing to sanitize some of his grouchier remarks. Last week Groucho lost the first round when New York State court refused to grant an injunction to stop distribution of the book...
Some sailplane pilots would sooner see hang-gliding go the way of pigsticking and jousting. Alvin Owens, vice president of San Diego's Decision Science, Inc., bristles at the mere mention of it. "It's a step backward," says Owens. "I think it's extremely unfortunate for people to think about soaring and hang-gliding in the same context. It's like comparing the Soap Box Derby to the Indianapolis 500." The feud is particularly sharp at Torrey Pines, where all hands compete for precious air space in one of the country's best-known...
...much of the fiercely competitive U.S. beer market has been taken over by a few giants, Hamm, like many smaller breweries, has fallen into the red. In the past two years, it has lost $3.7 million while annual sales have remained flat at about $140 million. Recently, Heublein, Inc., which acquired Hamm for $63 million in 1965, unloaded the company for a mere $6,000,000 to a group -i- of Midwest beer distributors called Brewer's Unlimited, Inc. The new owners called on Satchell to reorganize the company. He will say only that Hamm will be "less ambitious...