Word: pruned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think I could stand it another minute." Paul Davies was only 28. but already vice president of a San Francisco bank, when he signed on in 1928 as financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines of farm machinery, food processing and packaging equipment and agricultural...
...only 2% last year v. an average 6% for the Common Market nations. To a man, foreign businessmen think that the U.S. should be expanding much faster economically-and many say that tax cuts would be a good way to spur expansion. Some argue that the Kennedy Administration should prune Government expenditures to make up the loss in revenue. "The U.S. farm scandal has gained notoriety even in Europe," says Frederic Bates. . . director of the Union Bank of Switzerland...
...Measure for Measure, 'Take, O take those lips away'-but the art has almost died out.'' Wilder revived the art so successfully that Talma did not have to ask him to make a single change in the free-verse dialogue. She did, however, have to prune the German version of the libretto prepared for the Frankfurt Opera by Translator Herberth Herlitschka. Among the original Wilder lines that Talma particularly admired for their singable quality: "Send me the sign I have waited for/ Call me, call...
Designers' colors for winter sound like a low-calorie diet-carrot, eggplant, prune, cherry and mint. Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...
...Time to Prune. The Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary has also upped its standards, says Dean of Students Dr. Edward Stein. "We offer a five-to-ten-year debt and no salary to pay it off with when a student is through school, while industry offers a half to a full salary all the way through school. The result is a tougher, more dedicated kind of student. The bulk of today's students will be better ministers. This is the time to prune, not scoop in everything...