Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Hertz itself agreed to become a No. 2 of a sort. The rental firm's chairman, Leon C. Greenebaum, and Radio Corp. of America's chief executive, Elmer W. Engstrom, jointly announced that after an exchange of stock valued at $185 million, Hertz will become a wholly owned RCA subsidiary...
...plans for paid vacation and sick leave. Kresge's Methodist upbringing had taught him to be charitable as well as chary. He became a far-ranging philanthropist. In 1924, before foundations had become popular as tax-relief devices, he established the Kresge Foundation, gave $1.6 million in Kresge stock to get it started...
...time of his death, the man who had acquired a reputation as a cheapskate had given away most of his wealth, including 2,500,000 shares of Kresge stock, now worth $100 million, to his foundation. He had often said, in stating his lifelong ambition: "I really want to leave the world better than I found...
...dynamic men in the government. He successfully (though perhaps only temporarily) resolved a heated argument between officers who favored an army based on technical expertise and officers who stressed political reliability. Through his energetic insistence on political control, Lin turned the People's Liberation Army over to Mao lock, stock, and barrel...
...everything down to the price of a handkerchief. Just about his only diversion is horseback riding, which he does so well that he won the world dressage championship in Bern last summer. Although the firm's shares are sold publicly-and will be listed this week on German stock exchanges-Neckermann and his family own 51.8% of the stock, and there are no other big shareholders...