Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future of French relations with Germany, Gaus felt that the present "rapprochement" would continue and Beer added that "it is the new factor of super powers that prolongs this alliance" between the two countries. Fabra noted that the "rapprochement" is not unexpected...
...policy. It will not be smooth going at Sud Aviation either for Puget, a quiet, amiable St.-Cyr graduate. Though Sud Aviation made $8,300,000 last year, it has yet to recoup the original development costs of the Caravelle, and faces even greater outlays on the Mach 2 Super Caravelle, which it plans to turn out in cooperation with the British Aircraft Corp...
Swindler's Sellout. Founded by Swedish Tinkerer Lars Magnus Ericsson 86 years ago, Ericsson Telephone has had a troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus...
...that parents no longer bothered to warn the young against them. And the era has passed when every self-respecting millionaire's mansion was big enough to include a billiard room, where even a lady might join the gentlemen for an after-dinner round. No longer does a super-champ like Willie Hoppe draw thousands to his exhibition games...
Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...