Word: sales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other sacrifices, common stockholders will have to wait a long time for dividend payments to resume. Top managers could well announce token salary cuts* and the sale of the company's three corporate jets. Bankers may have to accept deferred payment and lower interest. A committee representing Chrysler dealers has offered to lend the company $50 for every car they receive-a deal that ultimately could amount to an interest-free credit totaling $120 million. lacocca has already confirmed that certain suppliers have agreed to extend terms of payment. Chrysler has also asked some to cut prices...
...beat the Confi Guide for straightforward, no bullshit advice about what courses you should take. It's on sale for only $2 at registration, around the campus or at the Crimson, 14 Plympton...
Considering the blue-chip ballot, there was certainly nothing political about the decision. The vote of the 34 owners of a co-op at Manhattan's 19 East 72nd Street blackballed a $750,000 apartment sale to Richard Nixon. The former President had sought to purchase a nine-room penthouse in the expensive East Side high-rise so that he and his wife Pat could be closer to their children. But the other owners believed that the Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison...
Esquire's sturdy genes go back to Depression 1933, when the posh magazine was launched for sale in men's clothing stores instead of on newsstands and cost 50? while the Saturday Evening Post sold for a nickel. It promoted men's fashions, a merchandising emphasis that continues to this day. But a part of the editorial genius of its founding editor Arnold Gingrich was a taste for good writing. At a time when Ernest Hemingway's stories were too unconventional for the Post, Gingrich admiringly sent him free slacks and a windbreaker...
...outspent him 20 to 1; Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, California Congresswoman, lost a race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers in his small state ("Vermont is not for sale"), lost a Senate race to Republican Robert Stafford and is now a lawyer in Bellows Falls (pop. 5,263) and a lobbyist in the state legislature. Wendell Anderson made the mistake of resigning his Minnesota governorship so that his successor could appoint him to a U.S. Senate seat. At the next...