Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same six companies led the sales list as in the previous two years. After G.M. and Jersey Standard came Ford with $8.7 billion, General Electric $4.9 billion, Socony Mobil $4.4 billion, U.S. Steel $3.6 billion. Chrysler, the only newcomer to the top ten, sped from twelfth place to seventh as sales increased from $2.4 billion to $3.5 billion. The laggard among the leaders was Swift, off from tenth to twelfth on a slight sales decline...
...Atlanta decision was a gentle attempt to accelerate one of the South's best-publicized plans for achieving integration without revolution. In 1961 Atlanta adopted a system of desegregating classes at the rate of one grade a year, starting with the twelfth grade. Since then, only 150 of the city's 45,000 Negro pupils have gone to school with whites, and the program will not take full effect until 1971. The Justices therefore ordered the federal district court in Atlanta to take another look at the plan and consider changes if it does not fit the Supreme...
...Jump! Jump! screamed onlookers as a troubled youth threatened to leap from a twelfth-story hotel ledge in Albany, N.Y. "Jump! Jump! cried another mob last week as a jobless man set to dive off Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge. Both would-be suicides were eventually talked down to safety, but not before hundreds of witnesses gaily exchanged bets on their fate whilte yowling such taunts as "What's the matter, ya yellow...
...hard luck, as he has all season. He shot a 72 (two over par) but was paired with the Dartmouth golfer who shot a par score, and he lost one up. Olson had turned in the best round at the Easterns last weekend, when the Crimson placed a disappointing twelfth of 14 teams...
...Boss. The twelfth floor is where Henry Ford, Ford President Arjay Miller and Executive Vice President Charles Patterson have their offices in a modernistic glass headquarters about a mile from Iacocca's building. Generally, Henry Ford watches over long-range planning and personnel development, Miller is in charge of finances, marketing and central staff, and Patterson of manufacturing. Unlike many of the sons of the pioneers of the auto industry, Ford maintains a constant interest in the business, letting his appointees run the company on a day-to-day basis but interceding whenever he deems it necessary. "Make...