Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singer President Douglas Alexander, who had bossed the company for 44 years, died in 1949, things changed. Milton C. Lightner, 61, who was born in Detroit and went to the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, stepped up after 21 years as a vice president, and let outsiders peek into the company's books. Even though its trade behind the Iron Curtain is closed, Singer in 1950 netted $18.8 million, highest earnings in 20 years. It had an earned surplus of $77 million, and paid a dividend ($3 a share) to its 4,500 stockholders...
...minute huddle with the President over foreign policy, he left. Then, as if to make it pointedly clear that he was not watching his TV set, Harry Truman emerged, climbed into his car ten minutes earlier than usual and drove to Blair House for lunch. Whether he sneaked a peek at television there was a well-kept secret. (Acheson succumbed to temptation, caught the tail end of MacArthur's speech...
...world's richest private charitable institution opened up its bankbooks for the first time last week and gave the public a quick peek. In its annual report, Detroit's Ford Foundation, set up in 1936 with a $25,000 gift from the late Edsel B. Ford, announced that it now had $492,678,255 in the till. Most of it represents 3,089,908 non-voting shares of Ford Motor Co. stock, given by the Ford family and currently valued at $135 a share. So far, the foundation, which Paul Hoffman heads, has given out $42 million...
...weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile, surrounds a small boy's teeth, with the necessary aperture in the center for whistling and spitting. Elfin ears peek selfconsciously around his rosy Pooh cheeks. He dresses in department-store suits, noisy ties and unshined shoes...
...test is much more fun if you don't peek...