Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of a stratagem that struck even the tolerant British as a disloyal act. Even before the marchers left Aldermaston, there appeared copies of a crudely mimeographed, twelve-page document headed: DANGER! OFFICIAL SECRET. Inside, its anonymous authors declared: "We are Spies for Peace. We have decided to publish an Official Secret. There are thousands more secrets in captivity. This is not the only one we shall release." The information it contained was, in fact, highly classified: the locations, code names and telephone numbers of twelve Regional Seats of Government from which British authorities would at tempt to restore order...
...associates"-of whom, though he did not say so, Nikita Khrushchev is the dean emeritus. The poet's most audacious gesture of independence was to give the editors of France's L'Express his autobiography for publication, knowing well that no Soviet writer is permitted to publish abroad without first getting clearance from the censors...
...calm the advertisers, whose faith in rating services was clearly shaken. Said Paul E. J. Gerhold, director of marketing services for Foote, Cone & Belding: "Restoring the confidence of business in television audience figures, after these hearings, may well require setting up a completely independent facility to produce and publish spot checks on the accuracy of the syndicated data...
...Artois brewery, Belgium's biggest, consists of just six lines, which do not even tell what products the company handles. The huge Solvay chemicals trust refuses to give the exact number of its plants, and Munich's Löwenbräu holds back from publishing its annual output (24 million gal.). Others delay what figures they do publish: Switzerland's Frisia oil company has just got around to publishing its 1961 report-showing a loss that amounts to nearly half its share capital...
When they have to publish figures, companies have numerous devices for juggling or obscuring them. One Brussels bank lists the value of its 24-story headquarters at 2?. And though Germany's automaking Daimler-Benz reported a $10 million net profit for 1961, German financial experts reckon, on the basis of its taxes, that its actual earnings were nearer to $50 million. This lack of reliable information scares small European investors away from investing in European stocks and is a chief reason why Europe has failed to develop a capital market. As a result, instead of turning...