Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSE R. GOLDMAN Decatur, Georgia...
Never had there been a first quarter like it. In auditoriums and armories across the U.S., shareholders last week heard reports of corporate profits exceeding their fondest dreams. According to early surveys, earnings for the first three months of 1966 rose to an annual rate of above $80 billion before taxes, nearly 10% over last year's record-smashing rate; so far, corporations have paid out about $20.6 billion in dividends. Among last week's shareholder sessions: > A.T.&T. had previously reported a record-breaking earnings pace of $468,684,000 for the three months ending...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...
...city larger than Lansing (population 92,000 at the time). The automobile companies' lobbyists, who had seen bigger things, were able to control the legislative process. Williams built an honest, efficient administration, but was able to increase spending for items like education and mental health only as revenues rose from the state's intredibly regressive tax structure...
...belong to Braniff President Harding Lawrence, 45, who took over the airline a year ago last week and is responsible for the color splash. Braniff is getting more attention than other airlines, and operating statistics show it. Passengers increased 18% last year to 3,370,000; revenues also rose 18%, to $129 million, and earnings were up 58% to $9,400,000. Within the year, Braniff stock rose from $25 to $125, and stockholders last week happily approved a two for one split...