Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, Boeing's surge stems from the late 1950s, when the company stepped up its sales effort to secure the 707's lead over its newer rival, Douglas' DC-8. Now, Boeing services include free computer studies made by a 100-man staff of airline industry analysts. If requested, says Boeing Marketing Director George R. Sanborn, the studies will show "how an airline should go about getting a maximum share of the market away from a competitor"-using Boeings, of course...
...subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators. We don't have any black outs or water shortages or subway strikes. Matter of fact, our commuter trains are seldom even late...
...Paris Burning? "Well, what the hell," said General Eisenhower, "I guess we'll have to go in." The Supreme Commander was talking about the liberation of Paris in late August 1944, and his remark quite properly categorizes that event as a military sideshow. In this Franco-American production, how, ever, the liberation is celebrated as a military epic, the greatest victory of the Gallic spirit since Roland held the pass at Roncesvalles...
...hard learner. For all his 1960 campaign talk about the need to spur the economy's growth, he was at first much less adventuresome and more conservative than his economists. He was determined to balance the budget and mighty reluctant to try the deficit-spending theories of the late John Maynard Keynes. It took Heller and his activist aides almost two years and 300 memos to convince Kennedy of the Keynesian notion that both economic growth and Government income would be increased...
Kennedy still wavered on tax reduction, was almost talked out of it by three powerful forces: Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr; Cabinet members; and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, then the U.S.'s Ambassador to India, whose "long shadow had fallen across the White House." Finally, the tide was turned by businessmen. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York late in 1962, Kennedy extolled the good sense of tax cuts and got such a rousing reception from 2,000 business leaders that he himself became convinced and proceeded to press enthusiastically for reductions. Said...