Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru was still worried by Peking's militaristic intentions, but heartened by the support India was getting around the world. In Moscow, instead of siding with his Communist partner, Nikita Khrushchev was urging both sides to embrace and make up. The remote land is not worth fighting over, said Khrushchev at a Moscow reception, though "give a general any situation and he will find strategic significance in it. I don't trust generals' appraisal of strategic significance...
...produce pearls instead of buttons came from the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which has the job of promoting new industries. Experiments produced only crude pearls, but showed promise. The man who turned the experiments into profits was Keith Bureau, an Australian businessman and partner in the big Melbourne importing firm of Brown & Bureau. Three years ago he formed a syndicate with a U.S. businessman, an Australian pearler, and asked Japanese Culture Pearl Expert Tokuichi Kuribayashi, president of Tokyo's Nippo Pearl Co. Ltd., to join them in growing pearls in the northwest...
...when Sewell Avery hired his firm, then in a one-room back office, to help streamline U.S. Gypsum. This led to a larger commission from Avery on how to reorganize Montgomery Ward during the Depression. In 1935, the firm's marketing-research side was strengthened by adding Partner Carl Hamilton...
...officials did not report the matter to Kintner or Board Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff, but took Producer Dan Enright's assurance that Stempel was lying. A year later, when the Stempel charges finally broke in the press, NBC still took the word of Producer Enright and his partner, Jack Barry, relying largely on their "excellent reputation"; Kintner was not asked and did not tell the committee that, at the time, he failed to listen to a taped recording of a conversation between Stempel and Enright that made their collusion unmistakable to any normally skeptical man (TIME, Sept...
Tiffany knew not what it had wrought. Its "entire stock" was one presentation putter, ordered by the partners of Parker & Co., a Manhattan aviation-insurance firm, to celebrate Managing Partner R. Leslie Cizek's 30th anniversary with the company. No sooner did the ad appear than Wall Streeters started burning up the phone clamoring for their very own gold putters. With a sigh, Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving announced that the store had ordered more of the $1,475 clubs for the men who want everything. And that it also had a less expensive model in base metals, with...