Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eager to break into discount selling, giant Montgomery Ward & Co. made a proposal to gregarious Sol William Cantor, 50, president of the 63-link Interstate Department Stores, whose annual sales rate has climbed from $90 million to $175 million since it entered discounting in 1959. With Wall Street's Lehman Bros, playing marriage broker. Ward's intends to pick up Interstate in a $50 million stock swap. The deal makes eminent sense to Manhattan's Cantor, who gives plenty of local autonomy to managers of Interstate's 42 standard department stores, but holds "a tight rein...
...19th century), that controls Peru through birth or wealth. He was re-elected President in 1956 only because he promised to restore legality to the outlawed, mass-based political party APRA. Once in office, Prado tried to develop the nation by switching on the currency presses. The sol sank, the economy wobbled, and Prado came under the withering fire of such critics as Pedro Beltrán, publisher of Lima's influential La Prensa...
...Prado is relatively secure today because of a fortunate stroke of politics; he named Beltrán as his Premier. Himself a conservative with the blood of conquistadores in his veins, Beltran stopped the money presses. He collected neglected taxes, trimmed excess bureaucracy, encouraged exports, curbed imports. The sol steadied, the balance of trade shifted to favorable, debts were paid. Progress is still slow, but enough projects for housing, road building and agrarian reform are taking shape to give Peruvians hope-and to warrant businesslike consideration of a Prado request last week for $29.6 million in emergency loans from Kennedy...
...incidents in the author's life turn up later in his fiction. Like the Glass children, Salinger was born in New York to a Jewish father and a Christian mother (to soothe her in-laws-to-be, Scotch-Irish Marie Jillich changed her name to Miriam when she married Sol Salinger). But Sol was, and is, a prosperous importer of hams and cheeses, and any connection he or Miriam ever had with show business is well hidden by the Salinger counterintelligence apparatus...
...night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories. But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol. In 1937, after Jerry spent a few unproductive weeks at New York University, the two Salingers set out for Vienna. "I was supposed to apprentice myself to the Polish ham business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz for a couple...