Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year; his 3% stock ownership in the drugmaking Schering-Plough Corp. rose to a year-end total of $105 million. Plough started in business at the age of 16 by borrowing $125 from his father in order to sell "Plough Antiseptic Healing Oil" door-to-door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year-has caught the eye of investment analysts...
...Dickmobile" hasn't been well received by establishment auto customizers, however. George Barris, who designed the Oscar Mayer Weiner Wagon and the STP Lemon Car, says Paige's car is "nutty." As for his own business. Barris says, "We try to keep our stuff on the socially acceptable level...
When Blake moved into vaudeville in 1902 at the Academy of Music on New York City's 14th Street, he still found vestiges of oppression. "Every night after the show, they backed a wagon up to the stage door on 13th Street and carted us down to Bleecker Street. In those days, the colored artists had to stay in crumb joints. We couldn't even go to the door of a good hotel...
Fast Pickup. There are a few other drawbacks. The bestselling RX3 five-passenger station wagon is not exactly oversized for its price ($3,700, with automatic shift, air conditioning and radio). Mazda's engine and complex emissions system, though admirably low-polluting, tend to develop a popping effect unless points, plugs and carburetor are meticulously tuned. Nearly all Mazda drivers find that gas consumption is about 10% higher than for comparably sized cars; the Mazda drinks a quart of oil every 1,500 miles. Still, the car has a lot of selling points, including a fast pickup that carries...
...around for a few more years. A point Fisher makes is that many students spend years getting certification they don't need. It would be better to approach employers directly and state their case instead of weasling around graduate schools until they're broke. If graduates would hitch their wagon to a star in the first place we wouldn't have to humor our friends when they think they're carpenters. And if the sky falls in, well, it's fallen in before...