Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25--The Senate Banking Committee gave President Johnson's new administration its first congressional victory today, recommending against a proposal that might have blocked grain sales to the Soviets. At stake is the sale of some 150 million bushels of wheat to communist countries approved by the late President Kennedy...
...stake is the fortune-which may prove to be worth as much as $300 million-left by the late Sarita Kenedy East. She was a granddaughter of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who was co-founder of the famed King Ranch and later became sole owner of the neighboring La Parra Ranch-an empire of 400,000 acres and 25,000 head of cattle. Sarita was an aloof and eccentric widow who liked her whisky and was more at ease with her Mexican ranch hands than with her wealthy landowning neighbors...
...deadline and perhaps beyond it; the Common Market's ministers will wear themselves to a frazzle in all-night sessions and finally reach agreement. Nowadays, it is not politically popular to go home empty-handed -governments and industry both have too big a stake in the success of the Common Market. The French have been particularly effective in floating stories that the market is floundering. Such reports, of course, strengthen their bargaining position. But at bottom the others are convinced that the French genuinely want the Common Market to work, for, in De Gaulle's ambition to lead...
During his years at Atlanta and with Crises, DuBois' thought under-went an evolution. In the first quarter of the 20th century, 1,091 Negroes were lynched in the United States. Some were publicly burned at the stake. In the 1906 race riots in Atlanta, Mrs. DuBois was beaten so severely that she never fully recovered. Dr. DuBois had seen Negro poverty close at hand, first in Philidelphia, then in Georgia. These things made him turn away from the idealistic optimism that he had learned at Harvard and led him to reject the conciliation of Booker T. Washington...
Homer succeeded Grace to the top jobs-first as president in 1945, then as chief executive in 1957. Precise and analytical, he surprised many in the industry by proving to be a forceful chief. Sensing that shipbuilding was on the wane, the old sailor cut back Bethlehem's stake in ships, and late last year initiated a threeyear, $750 million improvement program concentrating in other areas. Rising behind the Indiana dunes near Chicago is a $275 million finishing plant that will give Bethlehem, which has long been the strongest supplier in the East, a major hold in the Midwest...