Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, sex in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor...
...Signal Oil & Gas Co., the Los Angeles-based giant (1966 sales: $1 billion) that aims to strike it rich away from the oilfields as well as in them, added Mack Trucks Inc. to a list of holdings that already includes 48% of American President Lines and Garrett Corp., a manufacturer of aerospace components. Signal lost out in a bid for ailing Douglas Aircraft last winter, but the Allentown, Pa., truckmaker was only too glad to get under Signal's rich corporate umbrella. Despite record sales ($412 million in 1966), Mack has been desperately short of capital needed to expand...
...construction industry," whose current slump has pulled the chain on the company's profits. Despite record sales of $569 million, earnings plunged 44% to $10,350,000 in 1966 and are down by 86% so far this year. The company offered $38.50 a share for the rich safe-and-office-equipment maker, whose sales ($64 million) and profits ($4.4 million) have more than doubled since 1962. For Chairman John Mosler and the Mosler family, the sale means that their 46% holding will bring some $40 million in cash...
...United Fruit last year acquired the J. Hungerford Smith Co. (manufacturer of soda-fountain syrups) and the A & W root beer-stand system, only last month bought up the Baskin-Robbins chain of franchised ice cream parlors. All this, management hopes, will keep United Fruit's earnings as rich as a banana split...
Willa meanwhile has dreams of being murdered, as well she might, but female realism always defeats female fantasy. "Sauce was too rich at dinner" is Patsy's diagnosis. Willa is that most unlikely of women-one who is frightened of men. She almost gets over this block after a weekend with a jaded Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted...