Word: toehold
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...boys' trick event, Tom Chatham ran 2174 points to easily outclass the rest of the field. Chatham used the difficult and rarely-seen 360 degree toehold turn...
Larry planned his run of 3500 points around such high-point stunts as the 360 degree toehold turn both on water and in the air off the wake. Had he made his run successfully, he would have set a new Eastern, National, and World record. His lack of speed left him with 2852 points and a third place...
Britain needed urgently to expand its markets and broaden its shaky financial base. Once inside Europe, British industry was confident that it could substantially boost exports to the Six. It also anticipated a heavy influx of investment capital from U.S. and other foreign companies eager to have a British toehold in the Common Market. If Britain were finally excluded from Europe, investment would continue to dwindle and Britain might be forced as a result to make drastic cuts in its living standards. Meanwhile, it may either retreat behind high tariff walls or else return to its classic ideal of free...
...restless force that has steered Montecatini, Italy's giant chemical company, away from minerals and into a worldwide petrochemical operation is supplied by its big (200 Ibs.), back-thumping managing director, Piero Giustiniani, 61. Last week, to expand its toehold in the U.S. chemical market, Montecatini bought for an estimated $5.7 million a 4% interest in New Jersey's Minerals and Chemicals-Philipp Corp. As part of the deal-which is designed to produce transatlantic cooperation in mining, manufacturing and merchandising-Giustiniani got a seat on the Minerals and Chemicals board. Somewhat ruefully, Italian colleagues predict that American...
...jobs offered to them by most haole firms, Hawaiians of mixed blood turned to running hui-syndicates in which one astute businessman administers the pooled resources of the members. So successful a hui manager was Chinn Ho that he cracked Hawaii's bamboo curtain and gained a toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates, the huge Robinson estate, a bastion of Hawaiian conservatism, first Oriental invited to join the businessmen's Commercial Club, the first named President of the Honolulu Stock Exchange...