Word: intends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitions of James B. ("Buck") Duke, a North Carolina tobaccoman who had set up many factories, manufactured the first successful U.S. machine-made cigarettes. Duke pressured the other major tobacco manufacturers to join him in the American Tobacco Co., which became known as "the Tobacco Trust." "I don't intend to be swallowed by Duke," said Reynolds. "If he does, he'll have a bellyache the rest of his life." But Duke did swallow Reynolds by undercutting its plug prices?and Duke soon had his bellyache...
...game bird, or strums a guitar to his own bawdy lyrics. A veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following words on my tomb: 'Lawrence Durrell wishes you great passions and short lives.' If I die old, it will only need altering by one word...
Monetary and fiscal policy have found some powerful new allies in holding down inflation. One is the psychology of the consuming public; buyers plainly intend to buy at their price or not at all. Another new force is sharp foreign competition. For the first time since the 1920s, U.S. labor and management are facing efficient, hustling overseas competition. Price cutting abroad and buyer resistance at home, say the economists, are forcing labor and management to recognize some hard facts about the danger in ever-rising wages and prices...
...National Aviation Club in Washington about his plans for the Air Age and his awareness of the dangers. "There is a lot to learn in Washington about cannibals," he informed a big audience packed with Congressmen, Senators and blue-ribbon aviation-industry executives, "but I don't intend to be chewed . . . I don't intend to get caught in Washington like the girl with the Gleem...
...last week's international space conference at Nice, France, the hottest subject was "exobiology," a newly coined word for the study of life that may exist beyond the earth. Space Scientist Anatoly Blagonravov, head of the Soviet delegation, announced that the Russians intend to aim rockets at both Mars and Venus. Said he: "Instruments brought into the immediate proximity of the surfaces of other planets will permit, in the near future, the solution of one of the mysteries of the world, the existence of life on other planets." Blagonravov did not predict more definitely when the Soviet interplanetary rockets...