Word: tenpins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though amused, Davis had other ideas for solving the crisis. "Some may treat change as an enemy," he says, "but I prefer to believe it to be an ally." Steadily moving Rank beyond motion pictures, he diversified it into everything from testing machines to tenpin bowling, chopped down the bank debt within four years. Such change has proved a powerful ally indeed for Rank and Davis. This week Rank reports record fiscal 1964 earnings of $13 million on sales of $250 million, up 50% over 1963 and 13 times those of pre-diversification days...
...showing off his French-born bride of three months, Marie-Claire, 33. His silk-sheathed wife knocked down eight at a blow. Then she looked on with pride as Prime Minister Macmillan's Commonwealth Secretary doffed his coat and on his very first roll bowled a tenpin strike...