Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, cannot get away with that vertiginous plunge have the option to swoop the skin in back. By day, fashion follows the mid-century's other architectural foible-concealing the awkward infrastructure with artificially streamlined simplicity. The result: straight-up-and-down suits with that covered-up, curtain-wall look...
...were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, a Wall Street Republican seldom given to extravagant statements, breathed bullishly last week. Tax cut or no, he predicted to the House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. gross national product will climb well beyond $600 billion in next year's first quarter, and the economy will keep on expanding through 1964's first half. Turning to the present, not the future, Dillon reckoned that in 1963's third quarter, corporate profits rose 11% from a year ago to an annual rate of $27 billion after taxes, close to the peak...
...corporations tabulated by First National City Bank, 56% reported earnings up from the previous quarter, and for all, nine-month profits were 12% higher than last year. The Wall Street Journal surveyed 26 industries, found earnings were higher than in last year's third quarter for all but cement companies, chain groceries and papermakers. Spectacular successes were noted by airlines (Pan Am and TWA both had record earnings). Oil companies, notably those with major overseas operations, showed brisk earnings; Sinclair alone had a 76% rise to $45 million for the first three quarters...
Berlin's growth has been insured by elaborate and artificial economic concessions that make going to the Wall an attractive business proposition. Corporate income taxes are 20% lower in Berlin than in West Germany, and personal income taxes 30% lower. Half a dozen other business taxes are trimmed or eliminated in Berlin, while depreciation write-offs up to 75% in the first year are permitted on new equipment. West Germans who lend money for industry or housing there can knock 10% to 20% of the amount directly off their income taxes. And to woo younger settlers, Berlin offers...