Word: klock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December, it learned that International Harvester, which last year had sales of $2.5 bil lion, had hinted it might offer Fahr up to $100 for shares valued at $15 on the market. With sales of $335 million, Klockner could hardly match the Chicago company's bid. But neither Klock ner nor the 500 members of the Fahr family and their 4,000 employees wanted an American owner to take over the 98-year-old company. They remembered only too well what happened to Heinrich Lanz AG, which in 1956, at age 97, was bought...
BYRON VON KLOCK New Haven, Conn...
...small town. French and resoundingly provincial, Sellers (M. Topaze) teaches in a boys' school. His suits need cleaning but his heart is pure. He sits in drafty garrets quoting Pindar and correcting misspelled words like klock and starz. He believes the aphorisms he daily peddles to the young and pimply minds under his charge: There is no profit in ill-gotten gains, and Work tires no one-what tires is laziness, the mother of all vices, and Alcohol kills more surely than a pistol shot. He is a dedicated teacher who loves his work...