Word: razors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Entrepreneur John Bloom, then only 30, offered 500,000 shares of his Rolls Razor Ltd. on the London Exchange two years ago, investors grabbed them at $3.50 a share. On Bloom's rising reputation and Rolls's rising washing-machine sales, the hot stock doubled. In recent weeks, however, London's City has buzzed about troubles at Rolls, and the price of the company's stock has fluttered wildly. Last week, just two years and 51 days after John Bloom's stock was listed, it fell with a mighty crash. Nine minutes before...
...pictures. On location in Brazil, he never used a double. He walked along a ten-story ledge and hung from a wire 70 ft. high. Once he was warned that a stream was too dangerous to swim in, being chock full of poisonous serpents, carnivorous disease-carrying insects and razor-teethed fish. Belmondo tossed a chunk of corned beef into the water. When nothing happened to it, he dove in, saying: "What the hell, if they're not going to chew on that they're certainly not going...
...bowling teams), its league, its rules (72 of them), its umpires and its World Series, the All-Thailand championships, held each spring in Bangkok's Phramane Grounds. In India, where kite fights are also common, strings are coated with ground glass; in South America, frames are studded with razor blades...
What Wilkinson feared most has happened. Its success first lured such U.S. blademakers as Schick (Krona Plus) and American Safety Razor (Personna and PAL) into the stainless field. Then came Gillette, with its great bulk, big name and huge marketing facilities. By now reluctantly committed to a fight it did not want, Wilkinson set up additional manufacturing operations in Britain, Germany, Canada and the U.S. Needing new capital to pay for this expansion, it brushed aside more than 1,000 offers from outside firms to merge or associate with it in favor of putting its stock up for sale. Although...
Five and six are the key matches for Harvard. When Hugh Lynch played at number three for Princeton last year, Ripley powered him off the courts, 7-5, 6-2. Now Lynch is playing two spots olwer and Bob Inman's game will have to be razor-sharp to beat him tomorrow...