Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high: last year TV Guide grossed nearly $40 million. Having at tached itself to the big tubes glowing in 47 million homes, TV Guide is a healthy-organism fattening along with its host, a reference work as handy as the phone book. Other magazines may go in the magazine rack, but the Guide stays on top of the TV set, a viewer's indispensable chart through shallow channels...
Barely four years ago, General Dynamics seemed the paragon of the U.S. defense business, a precocious infant that had come from nowhere to rack up earnings of $44 million on sales of $1.6 billion -figures that put it neck and neck with long-established Boeing. But by 1960, the company's once respectable profits had turned into a $27 million loss, and in 1961 the company's net losses hit $40 million in the first nine months alone. But the most staggering statistic about General Dynamics was that in its efforts to break into the commercial jet market...
...hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...
Completing five of six passes on its first offensive attack, Kirkland drove quickly to the Dudley three yard line. Lee Raitz then carried the ball over to rack up the Deacons' initial six points...
...Slowly the tempo of preparation rises. Cleavers whack, pots rattle, steam billows up. Jokes and insults fly like salt and pepper; the chef gives the back of his nasty old tongue to a cook caught pilfering a pullet; the broiler man tips a pot of boiling water off a rack and-YEEEOOOWWW...