Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made fortunes in kickbacks and invested their profits in Egyptian or Lebanese real estate. When a Western diplomat tried to hint to Ibn Saud that his money was being stolen by corrupt officials, the Old Lion summoned his finance minister and demanded 1,000,000 riyals on the. spot. Soon sacks of coins were stacked around him. Triumphantly, the old king turned to the diplomat, declaring: "As King I must know that there is money available for state needs. This proves that it is available. Beyond that, I am not concerned...
...Marks the Spot. Part of the enigma of the Match King is that the man who commandeered millions spent comparatively little on himself. He maintained elegant apartments in Stockholm. London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and New York, but these were almost business necessities. He had little interest in women. His favorite possessions were two Rolls-Royces and three high-speed motorboats...
...plowed nearly $250 million back into the business in ten years, bought 2,000 forklift trucks, mechanized production with thousands of new machines. He abandoned Donegani's one-man rule for a U.S.-style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan who has served with Faina as co-president since...
Track coach Bill McCurdy has added cotton gloves to his team's equipment. The gloves enable his relay men to spot their receivers more easily and to keep a better grip on the baton, the mentor feels...
...idea first occured to McCurdy at a Yale football practice session. "The pigskin was wet, but the fellows kept a surprisingly firm grip on the ball. They were wearing white gloves." McCurdy, however, has the Crimson's gloves dyed crimson to make the receiver's hand easy to spot...