Word: tripler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even on a routine and relatively quiet day, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is like an anthill that has been suddenly kicked open. Men in suits from Brooks Brothers and F.R. Tripler move briskly from booth to trading station, clutching slips of paper. Clerks in blue and tan cotton jackets flit about trying to keep up with orders. Messengers dart in and out of the trading area, while overhead, in symbols seemingly as cryptic as the writing that appeared on the walls of Belshazzar's palace, projectors display the quotations off the stock tapes...
...damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were driven to Honolulu's Tripler Army Medical Center. Waving and smiling as they walked into the hospital, the astronauts asked officials to reassure their wives back in Houston. "Tell them we're feeling pretty good," said Stafford...
...doesn't want them quite that wide but 'I would like them a little wider.' He'll compromise." To go with the new suits, Nixon has taken to slightly wider, 3-in. ties, which he generally buys from F.R. Tripler or A. Sulka in Manhattan...