Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost: $1,000,000. Precise, prim-looking and uncertain, J.D.R. Jr. started work amid the massive rolltop desks, mustard-colored carpets and bare walls of his father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost...
...maritime jobs are more exacting or, under the right conditions, more rewarding, than that of a Suez pilot. The shifting, sandy banks and uncertain currents of the narrow (500 ft. at water level), man-made ditch are a constant menace to the free passage of the 40 or more ships that go through each day. To guide the ships safely through, the man at the helm must be familiar with every foot of bottom and bank, know every temperament of the current. In some parts of the Suez channel, a pilot may even have to turn his ship...
...relatively minor contenders, met in the center of the ring with all the world looking on. Australia's white-haired Robert Gordon Menzies, assured and sagacious, faced Egypt's young Gamal Abdel Nasser, clever and ambitious. The stakes were high, the din was deafening and the outcome uncertain...
...companies, the last great reservoir of private U.S. capital. But even some of the biggest insurance companies, e.g., Prudential, are so heavily committed that they are turning down loans they would have snapped up a year ago. The big squeeze is on businessmen who have not previously borrowed, have uncertain profit prospects or want money for speculation, e.g., inventory-buying to beat price increases...
Principles & Precedents. How hard the boycott really hits Kohler is uncertain, for the family-owned firm publishes no earnings report. The U.A.W. said that Kohler sales are down 37% since the boycott began last November.* Still, Kohler now claims to have 2,800 nonstrikers at work v. 3,300 before the strike, many of them on overtime. The company also says it sells everything it can make, earned more last year than in the strike's first year...