Word: swap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps in Josiah Quincy's day the country could afford to do that. But not now. Freedom is on the wane in this country and repression is on the rise all over the world. We can no longer sit back and swap stories about the good old revolution. We have to start worrying about the present. On this anniversary we must recognize that the patriots of Boston acted wisely in overthrowing their oppressors and the time is come to express our confidence in what our forefathers did by doing it ourselves...
Anyway, the pursuits of this group of women are certain to draw rage from militant feminists. Harvard Dames regularly sponsors cooperative dinners. They have a swap baby-sitting program. They organize bridge tournaments, fashion shows and evenings with members from foreign countries--complete with slides, posters, home-cooked dinners and chat. All the things a small-town women's club used to do. Minus perhaps the annual food-baskets for the needy...
...Manufacturing Co., a separate firm started by his father in 1925 that last year was a $328 million maker of meters and power tools. The next was with Collins Radio Co., the Texas-based communications-equipment manufacturer that did $350 million in business last year. Now, in a complicated swap of stock worth about $100 million to Admiral shareholders, Rockwell-an in tensely hardworking, much-traveled man whose friends call him "Al"-is picking up a corporation with sales of $469 million...
...Peterborough, a few passengers change for Adelaide. There the yard-masters have the maddening job of sorting out rolling stock for three different gauge tracks. In Gladstone, east-and westbound trains stop side by side to swap crews. "Be careful you get back on the right one," warns the chief conductor, Joe Ford, as he spots a passenger alighting dangerously between the two identical silver liners. By nightfall the train is heading into the "back o' beyond," where tiny settlements along the track still depend on a fortnightly supply train called the "tea and sugar...
...President Roy Ash to step down. Gray moved to the presidency of Connecticut's United Aircraft Corp., world's largest maker of jet engines (Pratt & Whitney). Today he is launching a major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales last year from drilling oil and gas, manufacturing Garrett gas turbines and aerospace gear, and making Mack trucks. If shareholders and trustbusters approve, the deal will make United the nation...