Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spence was an early bloomer, first wielding a niblick at the tender age of eight. He shot a 113 for his first 18 holes. He made a 74 at age 14, the same year he played in his first Pennsylvania State Amateur, then his home state...
...Fitzgerald's royalties amounted to $81.18. Late last month, a signed first edition of The Great Gatsby was auctioned at Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York City for $4,250. Critic Malcolm Cowley's copy of Gatsby was knocked down at $1,000, and his copy of Tender Is the Night, inscribed by the author, went for $3,200. Dozens of other major and minor writers of the 1920s were similarly appreciated. William Faulkner's The Marble Faun-well preserved and signed -brought $6,250; William Carlos Williams' scarce first book Poems went...
...tender offer was the latest in a series by United's aggressive chairman, Harry Gray, who became head of what was then United Aircraft in 1972 and promptly set about diversifying his company away from its dependence on Government orders. Since 1972, United's revenues have more than doubled, to $5.2 billion last year, and earnings have tripled, to $157 million; Government contracts have declined from half the company's business to less than a third. United's 1974 takeover of Essex International, a wire manufacturer, and its 1975 merger with Otis Elevator Co., the world...
Fruitless Overtures. As with his earlier acquisition efforts, Gray's attempt to swallow up Babcock & Wilcox has not left his target's management cheering. The tender-offer announcement, which caught Wall Street by surprise, followed weeks of fruitless overtures by Gray to B&W's chairman, George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt...
...robbing banks, post offices, and train stations because he can't afford to pay his employees (devoted to wood, he's being beaten in the market by the manufacturers of plastics) into a film that is more complex than its unostentatious style would indicate. Beneath the country picnics, the tender-funny lovemaking, the man who robs a bank with a bandage on his nose and a single bullet in his gun, Goretta raises questions about the tenuous nature of our expectations, the impossibility of accomplishment in a money-oriented world, the reasons why we love. The film is quiet...