Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plant, the brothers pulled off their biggest coup. Worried by a campaign against foreign ownership of Philippine utilities that was sparked by the Lopez-owned Chronicle, the U.S.-owned General Public Utilities Corp. decided to sell off its big, well-run Manila Electric Co. Head of the government-underwritten Philippine syndicate that bought Manila Electric: Eugenio Lopez...
Roberts & Nostradamus. The book is actually a collection of related short stories. The best of them are case histories of shattered men, skillfully underwritten but developing clues with all the suspense of detective fiction, moving toward the revelation of a "forgotten" experience. Under Pentothal, a waist-gunner tells Newman how he survived a B-24 crash in North Africa. In the wreckage he stumbled across the other waist-gunner-headless. As he ran from the burning plane he heard the pilot, his buddy, calling him by name for help. The plane then exploded...
...York Stock Exchange added a warning of its own. In all cases, said a Big Board circular last week, a broker should think long and hard before becoming a director of a company whose stock he had underwritten, or before accepting options to buy the company's stock at a price likely to run below subsequent market prices. Such activities, noted the New York Stock Exchange statement dryly, were apt to place a firm "in the position of being unable to defend its actions from charges of manipulation...
...flashy new magazine was the bestseller on British newsstands. It was sold out almost as soon as it appeared. For two shillings (28?) a copy, Britons got their first taste of Topic, a 64-page, photogravured weekly newsmagazine edited by a Fleet Street veteran and underwritten by half a dozen millionaires.* But while the fine first-issue sale (150,000) was an auspicious sign, Topic may discover that to make a go of it in Britain, even six millionaires are not enough...
...Dishwater Test. Like the Michelin, which is underwritten by France's Michelin Tire Co., the Mobil guides are partly promotion gimmicks: Mobil frankly hopes that the books "will build our station traffic." Each guide lists local tourist attractions-many of which are so far off the beaten track that they are all but unknown to natives-as well as hotel and motel accommodations; entries duly note the distance to the nearest self-service laundry, and whether sitters are available or pets permitted. But the most important feature of each volume is the restaurant list, compiled for the most part...