Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of holdings that already includes 48% of American President Lines and Garrett Corp., a manufacturer of aerospace components. Signal lost out in a bid for ailing Douglas Aircraft last winter, but the Allentown, Pa., truckmaker was only too glad to get under Signal's rich corporate umbrella. Despite record sales ($412 million in 1966), Mack has been desperately short of capital needed to expand its 20,000-a-year truck output and increase its 15% share of the heavy-duty-truck market. Signal had hardly settled the Mack merger terms, involving some $185 million in securities, when...
...failed to capture the spirit of the marchers. The general attitude transcended that of the painted teenyboppers: celery, crackers and candy bars being passed through the crowd; patient waiting at every corner; ten strangers huddling together under one umbrella. The high spirits of the march did not stem from a lack of seriousness but from the good feeling of representing important ideals...
...moderation and temperance. The Greeks are a volatile, hotheaded and individualistic people whose political factions fight each other with the fierce ardor of the wars of the ancient city-states. The monarchy, by raising national leadership above the slings and arrows of Greek-style politics, is a needed umbrella in whose shade Greeks of every political stripe from Trotskyites to fascists wrestle for attention and control...
...following morning, ten members of the family assembled at the site for a formal, unannounced ceremony. Jacqueline Kennedy arrived clutching a bouquet of lilies of the valley. Lyndon Johnson, invited by Bobby and Jacqueline Kennedy, shared his outsized umbrella with Bobby in the chill, driving rain. Once again, Cushing's unforgettable nasal, New England accent broke the stillness at Arlington Cemetery: "Be at peace, dear Jack, with your tiny infants by your side, until we all meet again above this hill and beyond the stars...
JAPAN has enjoyed an extraordinary peace since the Second World War. We have never felt the sense of being threatened by external forces, mainly because of the United States nuclear defense umbrella. In this atmosphere a particular image or feeling about Communist China has grown up. Of course there has been a wide variety of opinion but, in the main, feeling about China has been good. To some Japanese, mostly Communists and socialists, China has been the potential champion of the progressive forces of the world. Furthermore, a sense of guilt for the criminal acts of the Japanese army towards...