Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...providing clear fields of fire on the plains below. Three separate lines of defense run along the hillsides, one above the other. Each line has its own triple layer of mines, barbed wire and heavy fortifications, for a total of nine miniature Maginot Lines that must be breached to reach the final plateau...
...custom-fitted Paris interpretations at extremely high prices; cheaper concerns turn out low-cost copies in nonoriginal fabrics. Ohrbach's and Alexander's win their acclaim by making large numbers of line-for-line copies in the original fabric at a price not entirely out of reach...
...Consolidated Foods Corp., the huge Chicago-based food processor and distributor, hopes to double its sales to $2 billion by 1975, is hungry for acquisitions to help it reach that goal. The latest possibility: New York-based Chock Full O'Nuts, a coffee-processing and luncheonette-chain operation (1966 sales: $48 million), which is holding merger talks with Consolidated. - Control Data Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware, agreed to take over a well-matched mate: C-E-I-R Inc., a $22 million-a-year, Washington-based computer software outfit that provides data-processing services. Like much...
...agency (other accounts: Benson & Hedges 100s and Braniff airlines), which plans to tackle the Mustang headon, with the pitch that the new car has features-contour bumpers, hand-welded roof, more leg room-that make it a swell value. A.M.C.'s brass expects the total specialty market to reach 1,000,000 car sales next year, counts on the Javelin to capture a 5% slice, or 50,000 cars. Added to American's present 250,-000-a-year sales level, it would bring the company to what it calculates as its break-even point-sales...
...film making is not easy to analyze. It is a quality both evanescent and palpable, as if the Indian director had found a way to take the lens off his camera and allow life itself to touch the raw film. Whether or not Ray's latest film to reach the U.S. is his masterpiece is beside the point; each of his works is a version of perfection...