Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plum for Boeing. United Air Lines, the largest U.S. line, announced the biggest individual order in air transport history: $750 million worth of jet planes and spare parts. Most of the 144-plane plum went to Seattle's Boeing Co., which thus not only reinforced its position as the world's largest maker of commercial planes (recently wrested from Los Angeles' Douglas Aircraft), but also gained dramatically in its race to catch up with Douglas and British Aircraft Corp. in sales of short-range jets. United will acquire 130 Boeing planes in all: 70 twin-jet short...
...bald eagles and 200 crows spotted in Topsfield; whistling swans still found in Westport; the rusty blackbird nesting in Lincoln; the purple sandpipers piping sand to Plum Island; a partridge in a pear tree seen in Bethlehem...
...rosy were things down on the farm, in Orville's view, that he even began to feel perky about his own job, long the bitterest plum in the U.S. Cabinet. Said he in a recent speech at West Point, noting that he would soon begin his fifth year as Secretary: "That tenure, of course, is not a record; yet you don't exactly find five-year Secretaries of Agriculture hanging from trees." Peasants. Perhaps not, but last week the president of the U.S.'s biggest farmer organization, the 1,647,455-member American Farm Bureau Federation...
...business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
...other hand, family firms have some congenital weaknesses, and Wall Street has tended to play these up in its constant importuning of such businesses to go public. Among them: the problem of signing up and holding able executives who know that the sweetest plum is often reserved for the boss's son. Perhaps the worst fate that can befall a family-owned company is to have at its head a grandpa who thinks that the old ways are still the best...