Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjust itself to changing times, turn out new products and create new markets. Under dynamic management, many a company has diversified so fast that it has not even found time to change its name to keep pace with its progress. Examples: Minnesota Mining (up 55%) moved from fluorspar to Scotch tape, now makes recording tape to boot; American Machine & Foundry Co. (up 26%), which started out making cigar machinery, now produces everything from bowling pin setters to tie-stitching machines and pretzel twisters. Even the steel industry (whose stocks are up 38% since September) is tentatively edging into the plastics...
...Capa earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world. Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with Lana Turner after...
...decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn off, a good blend with bourbon or Scotch...
Skunks for Sears. Murchison got his start in business as a boy in Athens. His parents were of Scotch Presbyterian pioneer stock and, for Athenians, fairly well off; his father was head of the First National Bank. Nevertheless, young Clint, the second of nine children, used to get up at 3 a.m. to run a trap line for coons and skunks, sold the pelts to Sears, Roebuck...
Private Life: Outdoors, a passion for hunting, fishing, hiking; indoors, for woodworking (which he now rarely has time for), and tying fancy flies for next spring's fishing. Smokes six to eight cigars a day, drinks an occasional Scotch & soda, likes western movies to get his mind off work, and quietly frets at the social chores that go with...