Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is much in line with what the Nixon Administration and the preceding Johnson Administration have intended. As McCracken said in Paris last week: "In general, we are now on the right course in economic policy. The budget is back under control. Money and credit policy is tracking about right. But we have had three years of excessive demand, and it naturally takes time to regain your balance...
...sheer gall, few takeover artists have rivaled Saul P. Steinberg, 29, chairman of 71-year-old Leasco Data Processing. Last year his Manhattan computer-leasing firm gained control of Reliance Insurance, a large multi-line company, and squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised...
...president of a Manhattan-based family holding company called Admiralty Enterprises Inc., which owns seven ships. Two of them, tankers that the family had built in 1957, are out on charter. The other five, which serve lucrative cargo routes to the Mediterranean, belong to the Prudential Lines, which the Skourases have owned since 1960. Soon Spyros S. will move the family into the ranks of important shippers. With backing from two New York banks, Marine Midland and Chase Manhattan, he has agreed to buy the 24-ship Grace Line fleet from W.R. Grace...
...Skourases got into shipping in a major way only by accident. Back in the early '50s, when Prudential Lines' Founder Stephen D. Stephanidis encountered financial troubles, Spyros Senior and some others bailed out their fellow Greek immigrant by taking a financial interest in the line. By 1960, Stephanidis had died unexpectedly, the others had sold out, and Skouras wound up as Prudential's sole owner. His son, bored with running a string of 75 New York-area theaters, decided to try his hand at directing the line...
Consider the lines. Things aren't so good in Old Vienna. The students are rumbling; the peasants are restless. Emperor Franz-Josef (played in a triumph of miscasting by James Mason), surveys the latest student riot from the palace balcony. Line (in a tone of melancholy): "So we've come to this...