Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correcting the Boss. U.S. automakers sold 693,323 passenger cars in January, fully 21% more than the January record set last year (see chart). The statistics were so impressive-Detroit greeted them almost in disbelief-that Lee lacocca, Ford's new group vice president, had to correct a prediction made only last December by his boss. Henry Ford II. "Business is fantastic," said lacocca. "We could well be looking at a 9,000,000-car year in 1965, including 500,000 imports. It could be that Mr. Ford will look like a bear with his 8,700,000 figure...
...from now on, American Tobacco stands to benefit. Last week the nation's second largest cigarette maker (after R.J. Reynolds) moved to acquire Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. Consolidated is a vast (1964 sales: $634 million) packer, distributor and retailer of foods whose sweets range from Sara Lee bakery products to Union Sugar and Shasta beverages...
...Lee Fletcher, 28 years old and the sole veterinarian in Windsor, Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a lumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, married, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...
Taylor entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1921 after graduating first in his class from Washington and Lee University. Between 1923 and 1925, he studied at the Universities of Ghent and Paris on a fellowship, and on his return to Cambridge he became a lecturer at Radcliffe, giving the first half of History...
Most of Rain's inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide...