Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALEXANDRA K. FIETZ...
...Saturday name, meaning "soft" or "gentle." The name of a Burmese child usually begins with one of the letters deemed auspicious for the day upon which he was born (e.g., K or G for Monday, T, D or N for Saturday). There are rarely family names, if at all. The Burmese also believe that a child's personality is often determined by his birthday, or by his demeanor at birth. "A man born on Monday will be jealous; on Tuesday, honest; on Wednesday, short-tempered but soon calm; on Thursday, mild; on Friday, talkative; on Saturday, hot-tempered...
...about the only thing the two had in common was that both were working on nuclear-powered craft, one in submarines and the other in airplanes. One of the earliest and biggest diversifiers was Glidden Co., from paints into such products as sex hormones and oleomargarine. Locomotive-building H. K. Porter Co., convinced that the locomotive market was running out of steam, bought up 15 companies in eleven years, now makes steel, industrial rubber and oilfield equipment. Its sales have soared from $8 million to $64 million...
...visitor as Chinese calligraphy. Among the most popular were the great Sung master Ma Yiian's fan-shaped Two Sages and an Attendant Under a Plum Tree, and a misty mountain-and-river scene in black ink and dainty colors, like dilute pastels, by the lyth century master, K...
...months almost everyone has known that Chrysler has been having its troubles (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Board Chairman K. T. Keller and President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert told the worst. In the first half of 1954, they reported, Chrysler sales dropped 42% to $1.1 billion, while earnings dipped 64% to $1.81 a share. Directors forthwith chopped the quarterly dividend rate in half, to 75?. Keller and Colbert indicated that third-quarter results would be no better, due to shutdowns for new model changes...