Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Analyzing the three-year expansion, the report found that two major factors were increases in Government spending and a rise in residential construction. Federal purchases rose 16%, accounted for 11% of the $100 billion increase in G.N.P. State and local purchases rose 13% to add 8% to G.N.P. Most of the rest of the advance came from sustained consumer demand; individuals continued to spend about 94% of their income-including a dollar record for cars. All this, said the report, was "accompanied by a record of price stability unsurpassed in any expansionary period since World...
...sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed sheep on a grassy slope behind the rightfield fence, passed out free Stetsons, released thousands...
...Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm has changed its handle to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
Although their names sometimes suffer drastic changes, the big law offices are usually solid and durable institutions. Most of today's giants are direct descendants of firms established generations ago. Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, for example, traces back to 1869. Relationships with clients tend to be just as durable. Shearman & Sterling has represented one New York bank for the past 67 years...
...several Wall Street law firms and failed to get a job. "Law degrees from Harvard or Columbia," Dulles later recalled, "were the requirement for admission to the eminent law firms of New York." It took family influence to win Dulles a starting berth at Sullivan & Cromwell. Once in, he rose to be the top partner, but he never did get his name in the title. Sullivan & Cromwell it remained, and remains today, although Sullivan died in 1887 and Cromwell in 1948, leaving an $18 million estate...