Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who worry about bad influences on American youth were consistent, they would simply apply the same rules to the sale of literature that seem to satisfy them concerning alcohol and tobacco. A "No Sale to Minors" sign in bookstores would still permit adults to obtain any and all literature. There would be no censorship...
...these days is the Shah's "White Revolution," so called because he hopes to implement it without bloodshed. In a desperate effort to bring his country into the 20th century, the Shah has worked to introduce 1) land reform, 2) nationalization of the nation's forests, 3) sale of government factories to private businessmen, 4) profit sharing for workers, 5) amended electoral laws, and 6) mass education in 80% illiterate Iran through a national "literacy corps...
Equally Reptilian. The postprandial sale was 43 modern works from the collection of Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotrement. Adding a fillip to the occasion was the first appearance as auctioneer of Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
...aeronautics expert and former Under Secretary of the Air Force, oversees the company's technical operations. No other corporate officers have ever been handed so many varied problems so fast. They have had to handle the housekeeping chores of starting a new company from scratch, the public sale of $200 million of stock, a constant round of proposals and appeals to regulatory agencies, the duty of answering to the President and Congress as well as to stockholders...
...profitable high-quality steel plant, and Capito & Klein, originally part of the big Rheinhausen steel mill, went on to buy several big steel fabricators. It failed to sell Rheinhausen as required by an Allied directive, and the deadline has been extended so often (every year since 1958) that the sale is now regarded as a dead issue. Krupp might have done better to sell: Beitz admits that Rheinhausen is losing money, and outsiders guess that the loss has been running lately at $2,000,000 a year. Other soft spots: Krupp's truck-building and plane-making interests...