Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tonic is expected to come from the U.S. Blaming the sluggish U.S. economy on a delayed reaction to last year's tight money policy, the OECD sees "a quite sharp pickup, particularly in the later months" of 1967. There are, of course, uncertainties: should lagging production severely crimp corporate profits and personal paychecks, a revival will be long in coming. If all goes well, the OECD countries can expect that "at least by the end of this year, a more normal rate of growth will have been resumed, which should then continue into...
Flying Dutchman responds to is word from cronies or ex-crew members, and she does not lack for that. Messages come with poignant regularity from shore-bound mariners needing loans or new pickup trucks, who cable a likely description of the sailor. She is compelled to answer as if to the call of sirens, but scarcely cares when instead of her beloved she finds a swindler in Dahomey or a filling-station attendant in Sete. The same indifference is adopted by her new lover, the young Parisian, who comes to realize that their only true bond is their endless quixotic...
...calculated the team had covered 100 meters. Back at the landing zone, Brown's whispered message filtered into the PRC transceiver: "Four seven, this is Papa Two. I'm in trouble. This is Papa Two . . ." No reply. The triple-tiered jungle canopy drowned his call to the pickup helicopter. Brown moved his men soundlessly across the clearing and set up a radial defense-each man flat on his back, head to the center of the circle, his M-16 ready-behind a tangle of fallen trees...
...Chief Executive Ling, 44, the Wilson deal was the zenith of a sensational rise that began in an electrical shop in 1946. With $3,000 in capital and a battered pickup truck, Ling contracted to lay wires in buildings springing up in prosperous Dallas. He learned finance, went public, issuing 800,000 shares in his little company-keeping half for himself-at $2.25. Next came his first acquisition: an electronic-vibration-equipment maker, for which he paid $19,000 cash and assumed the company's debts of $66,000. After a series of small takeovers, Ling was ready...
...Cong in the area, Fall was relaxed and in good humor. He even joked about the danger. "The dean of Howard told me to be careful. He said it would sound like hell if they had to name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard...