Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the Arab states, but was kicked out of the Israeli army in 1950 by Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, who recalls today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist Mapam Party and joined Premier David Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai Party. Soon he was back in the Defense Ministry to write a history...
...success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came to the National Watershed Conference...
...suffered. International Business Machines' first-quarter profit set a record ($2.67 per share) for the period, a 39% gain over the year-ago period. Both Revlon and the Borden Co. also had record first-quarter earnings. American Machine & Foundry's Chairman Morehead Patterson predicted, as quarterly earnings rose to 93? a share v. 87? a year ago, that 1961 would be "a very satisfactory year...
...City, in Chicago's McCormick Place exposition center, outdrew even the opening game of the White Sox home season. The 18,420 shareholders, the largest number ever assembled for any company's meeting, could hardly have helped being pleased: in the twelve months ending Feb. 28, earnings rose to $1,226,746,000, the greatest profit ever made by any corporation...
...company's expenditure on research and product development was increased from 3% to 5% of gross sales. As sales rose sharply through mergers and diversification, the research outlay has more than tripled to $4,500,000 a year...