Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corp. makes just about everything else, though, from bicycle brakes to missile-tracking systems. It embraces 373 different product lines, 28 divisions, nine U.S. subsidiaries and 22 affiliated companies in ten countries. Last week the company drew yet another operation under its wing: for $5,300,000 worth of stock, it acquired Besly-Welles Corp., an Illinois machine-tool maker that had 1964 sales of $11.5 million...
...birthday in July, Stengel fell and fractured his hip. Doctors told him that he might never walk properly again, so Casey, who has been quietly salting it away for years, decided to go home to his bank (the Valley National of Glendale, Calif.), his "dozens" of oil wells, his stock portfolio, and his six-story office building in Glendale. He was still on the Mets's payroll as the club's "West Coast vice president"-or, in Stengel's words, "the highest-priced scout you've ever seen." Coach Wes Westrum would manage the team...
...Carte Blanche. It is now the world's leading credit card (1964 billings: $342 million), accepted in 122,208 establishments that range from Tokyo restaurants to Paris perfumeries. Amexco boosted its 1964 revenues 17.7% to a record $118 million and its earnings 11.3% to $12.5 million. American Express stock, which plummeted from $62 to $35 within a month after the scandal broke, last week was up over...
...days, they often warn: "Tonight you won't watch Carosello." The nightly eleven-minute TV show has a huge audience of both children and adults, despite the fact that it is nothing more than a nonstop commercial, peppered with jingles, cartoons and celebrity testimonials that hawk everything from Stock brandy to "Tiger in your tank." Carosello is but one reason why TV advertising, little known outside the U.S. a decade ago, has become a $775 million-a-year business in a dozen countries, from Finland to Japan. This year that total will probably increase another...
...moved from a $17 million deficit three years ago to a profit of $14 million last year. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines last month announced its first profitable quarter in five years-$4,000,000 in earnings for the April-June period. Rising on the New York Stock Exchange along with the buoyant stocks of U.S. airlines-which are also having an excellent year-KLM stock in the last two weeks has gained 18 points, closing...