Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rickey's tall, stainless-steel blades and showers of metal shards shift gently with changing air currents, sound like the wind whispering through TV antennas...
Hoodlums & Hopefuls. Gum Maker Thomas Adams introduced vending 76 years ago with penny machines on New York City's elevated platforms. The industry blossomed in World War II, with jerry-built soft-drink and snack dispensers in three-shift war plants. But postwar prospects attracted underworld hoodlums and undercapitalized hopefuls. The industry was overbuilt, and fell into such bad repute that long-range credit was difficult to obtain...
Johnson's test, then, will come not so much on November 3 as when he tries to translate his mandate into new legislation--when he must shift from the static consensus that he enjoys now (by standing still he can appeal to a wide range of groups) to a moving consensus where he marks out new areas of advance and must rally others to follow...
William Bartholomay, chairman of the board of the Braves, told a new conference that he is returning to Milwaukee with the first firm commitment form Atlanta officials since rumors of the shift started more than a year...
Borden's moves toward such products, which are linked more often to beer guzzlers than to milk sippers, will be supervised by a new top man. In a shift long expected at Borden's, Executive Vice President Francis R. Elliott, 61, last week stepped up to become president and chief executive, replacing Harold W. Comfort, Borden's chief since 1956, who is retiring at 67. Elliott joined the nation's fifth largest food firm 35 years ago as a junior lawyer, soon shifted to the milk and ice cream division, which still accounts for about...