Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footer designed by Architect Philip Rhodes), which, at $3,000, may eventually outsell the Day Sailer. His company sold 250 boats and took in $300,000 in 1958. This year, he expects to sell 1,800 boats. The only trouble with all this growth is that apart from a modest $12,000 profit the first year, O'Day Corp. has lost money every year since, largely because O'Day knew a lot about sailing selling but less about business...
...fine meal with good wine he would quip: "You can always live like a millionaire for five minutes." This is the tone of the bohemian rather than the social reformer. And when he set up house with pretty Socialist Jennie Lee, the Bevan cottage was exactly the sort of modest weekend retreat inhabited by a thousand middle-class intellectuals...
...Doing things, not basking in the glow of achievement, seems to be his goal. Like Industrialist Howard Hughes, he is usually inaccessible, rarely interviewed, seldom seen even by his lawyer. His off-hours, like any suburbanite's, are invested in fighting the crabgrass on the lawn of his modest home in Darien, Conn., where he lives with his second wife (he has one stepson). Early-morning commuters do not recognize this unobtrusive suburbanite for one of the world's wealthiest men. About the only place that Ludwig's wealth shows through is aboard...
...been generally content to regard the U.S. as "the arsenal of defense," concentrating on its own efforts on producing the stream of consumer goods that brought about its unparalleled postwar prosperity. Now, for reasons of pride, politics and profit, the Continent is gradually developing its own defense industry. Though modest compared with the huge $53.7 billion U.S. defense budget, the European arms industry is already big enough to be taken seriously, particularly at a moment when Europe is feeling the slows in other economic areas...
...Lord Peter Wimsey. Balliol wafts along on a modest budget of $450,000, costs students about $1,260 a year, and is well laced with state scholarship boys. To spruce up the premises, it is launching a $2.8 million birthday fund drive, but bricks interest it less than brains. Only the brightest apply each year, and only about one out of six (including six or eight Americans) gets in. Hardly anyone drops...