Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Labor Party's official song is more auld hat than Auld Lang Syne. At the party's annual conference in Brighton last week, the leaders as usual linked hands on the platform and (to the tune known in the U.S. as Maryland, My Maryland) chanted the quaint lyrics...
...that a new record in 1964 seems reasonably certain, the big guessing game is about how well the industry will do in 1965. Last week the top men in Detroit took a look ahead, agreed that the industry will have another bumper-to-bumper crop, but disagreed-to the tune of about 700,000 cars-about just how good the year will be. Cautious but optimistic, General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner predicted that 1965 sales "could well exceed the long-term trend estimate of 7,800,000 cars and approximate the levels reached in 1964." Chrysler President Lynn Townsend said...
...business has turned patron in a big way, partly out of tax leniencies, partly out of a new sense of community responsibility. Last year U.S. business supported culture to the tune of $25 million and is expected to spend 10% more in 1964. Chase Manhattan Bank has a $500,000 collection of modern art and gives some $350,000 a year to educational and cultural projects. The Basic-Witz Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, Va., commissioned a concerto by Robert Evett for its 75th anniversary, and General Motors recently sent its employees 600,000 copies of two booklets: French Impressionism...
...broom-less witch. If the ratings are correct some 32 million people watch this show each week, in which the same sort of thing happens over and over again- something breaks, the girl's nose twitches, the film is run backwards, the broken object is whole again, tune in again next week, same time, same staple...
...most modern and creative financial institution. In its earliest major deals a century ago, it raised money in Germany for Sweden's infant railroad and financed Swedish iron and timber ex ports. Skandinaviska also bankrolled the worldwide ventures of Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger to the tune of $65 million, and his collapse in the 1930s almost brought the bank down as well...