Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about 4 a.m., Hawaii time) by a duty officer. He hurried to the windowless war room on the third deck of his hilltop headquarters overlooking the white sands of the Oahu coast. He slipped into his green leather chair at the center of a U-shaped table, opposite a wall on which illuminated status reports could be flashed, and picked up a dialless gold telephone at his left. On the Stateside end of the circuit was Robert McNamara. Sharp seldom left that room during the next 22 hours. He made about 100 calls to Washington, even more than that...
...explored the "room" in which they were trapped: a 144-ft.-long by 15-ft.-high chamber that was cold and damp, its floor under water. There was no food; yet, thanks largely to Martinet, the miners resisted panic, began tapping with their picks on the cavern wall...
...nation met the crisis in Southeast Asia with considerable calm, the same could not be said of Wall Street. The Dow-Jones averages paused on Monday after the first North Vietnamese PT boat attack on U.S. ships, plunged 7½-points Tuesday after news of the second attack, rallied on Wednes day for a fractional gain. Then on Thursday, as rumors spread of possible Red Chinese involvement, the market tumbled 9.65 points - to 823.40 - in the sharpest one-day break since President Kennedy's assassination. The week's total decline, after a 5¾-point rally at week...
...world's computer orders. By making all its equipment so that it meshes with IBM's systems-and trying to make it better and cheaper-once-tiny Control Data has risen to third place in computers (after Sperry Rand) and is jokingly known on Wall Street as "the poor...
...miles from the Texas Gulf Sulphur site. Without so much as a hint of what, if anything, had been found, investors bought up more than 6,000,000 shares of Windfall in the week of this announcement. Rumors of a rich lode raced through Bay Street, Toronto's Wall Street. The company remained noncommittal and, despite frequent urgings from the Toronto Exchange, did not report its drilling results...