Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years-in 1966, when a strike grounded competitors. Otherwise, it lost up to $10 million annually. Last week, however, "The All-Steak Airline" became a pioneer of sorts. After numerous unsuccessful efforts to sell Northeast, Storer Broadcasting Co., which owns 86% of the stock, induced Northwest Airlines to take it. The merger would be the first among U.S. trunk lines since United acquired Capital in 1961, and could set off a new round of airline consolidations...
...which acquired its Northeast stock from Hughes Tool Co. in 1965, the deal makes sense. True, Northwest will give only one share of its stock, worth about $35, for five Northeast shares, which traded at a total of almost $70 just before the announcement. Individual shareholders in Northeast will take a drubbing, and they have started to organize and protest; but even at the fire-sale price, Storer will get out with a profit. It has put $35 million into Northeast, and will receive Northwest stock currently worth around $38 million, plus a Northwest promise to repay with interest...
...only stopped to take a piss. But then, so had a couple of hundred other people who all looked like they were also going down to D.C. (Perhaps all they were saying was give piss a chance? Sorry.) In any case, here we all find ourselves, we being mostly guys, shuffling about anxiously in this neo-Miami lobby, because a bunch of girls have taken over the men's room, complaining something about the lady's john having proved to be inadequate. Now, nothing is less conducive to upholding what shreds of male chauvinism are presently left...
...philosophy all season has been to just take the games one at a time," he continued. "We've insisted that the boys just concentrate on the next game, and we've continued with that philosophy this week." As Munro states his policy, it is evident that he is trying to keep his own thoughts, as much as his players', concentrated on Yale...
While I waited, I wandered about among the medics, hoping that they might be one of the focal points of the action that was about to take place. (And, anyway, since I had now become an affinity group of one, it was also quite the circumspect thing to do.) But the medics were mostly volunteers, with the kind of nervous enthusiasm common among first year section men. They kept giving every one around them suspicious looks...