Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drinking water!" Outside, Johnson, plainly moved by their plight, told Office of Emergency Planning Director Buford Ellington: "You've got to give them some water in there." L.B.J. then asked Mayor Schiro to get every Coca-Cola, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in town to rush soft drinks to the school-and advised the mayor to make personally sure that the bottles were handed...
Bargain Hunters. One result of this mood was a buying rush for bargain-priced shares, notably of such electronics and aerospace companies as Fairchild Hiller, Avnet, SCM and Ampex. Airlines, chemicals and drug issues spurted, many of them faster than leading industrial blue chips. Boeing (up 81 points for the week) reached a new high for the year; so did Lockheed, RCA, General Electric, IBM and Xerox. Small investors were buying strongly, but brokers also noted active trading by institutions...
...papers at his side and whisked them over the parapet. Walter J. Tuohy quickly enlisted a financial vice president and four aides, and all set out on a frantic search for the papers. For 21 hours, they scrambled over rooftops, peered out on lower ledges and tramped the rush-hour streets below. No luck...
Toward a Détente. Fowler's first stop last week was Paris, where he got a predictably cool reception. Though France was the first to press hard for monetary reform, it is in no rush for it right now, disagrees with the U.S. on how it should be achieved and what nations should carry it out. France's elegant, ambitious Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing pointedly did not meet Fowler at Orly Airport, and the talks got off to a slow start. After two days of discussion and some gastronomic milestones in Giscard's private dining
Fowler assured Giscard that Washington will not rush into a hastily prepared monetary conference, and that the U.S. is flexible and open to negotiation about most of its monetary positions. "I came here not to arrange a conference," said Fowler, "but to start discussions that might lead to one." Giscard d'Estaing had thawed so noticeably at the end that he went so far as to violate De Gaulle's French-officials-speak-French policy by rising to toast Fowler in English. The talks clearly produced a détente in the strained Franco-American monetary relations, and they gave...