Word: panning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Bluhdorn tells the story, the deal was the most natural thing in the world. While vacationing in the Bahamas last December, the chairman of Gulf & Western Industries mentioned to James Crosby, chairman of Resorts International, that he had acquired 1.8 million shares of Pan American World Airways, or 5% of the total. Crosby then made Bluhdorn an "irresistible" offer to buy 900,000 shares and got an option on the balance...
John B. Gates, Vice President, Pan American World Airways...
...past two years, conglomerates have absorbed or gained control of such big and basic enterprises as Jones & Laughlin Steel, Lorillard, Wilson, United Fruit and Armour. Lately, relative newcomers to the corporate scene have attempted to take over Sinclair Oil, B. F. Goodrich, Allis Chalmers and mammoth A & P. Even Pan American World Airways, long considered to be practically an unofficial agency of the U.S. Government, feels threatened by Resorts International, a onetime paintmaking company whose primary asset is a Bahamas gambling casino and a few hotels. Resorts' total assets are about a quarter the size of Pan...
From there, Lamar's career in the ring became a series of successes. He was national AAU light-heavyweight champion for two years running, 1926-27, boxed in the Pan-Americans, and finally turned...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer in English Literature, are the faculty members under whose signed advice X was approved. All this, of course, is to establish some sort of credibility. You see, X is no one night stand; no, as they say, fair-weather baby; not a flash in the pan, you know; not this one, no fly-by-night...