Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Testing. As long as some 28 divisions of Soviet troops continue to patrol beyond Czechoslovakia's borders in Eastern Europe, the threat of military intervention will never be far away. For the moment, however, Eastern Europe's crisis seems to be over. Faced with a solid wall of opposition within Czechoslovakia and the support of Dubček by other Communist leaders (both Tito and Ceauşescu are journeying to Prague this week for a show of solidarity with Dubček), the Soviets had little choice...
...lighter stories about the business community, the Wall Street Journal gently chided those executives who take off for long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...
...story appeared-which happened to be a Friday-the Westchester Business Journal conducted a similar survey. It phoned the top six executives at the Wall Street Journal to see if they took their own paper's advice. Executive Vice President Buren H. McCormack answered the phone. The result of five other calls, made a few minutes after 4 p.m.: "William F. Kerby, president, was 'gone for the day' an assistant said. Robert Bottorff, vice president, was 'on vacation.' Vermont Royster, the editor, was 'gone for the day,' his secretary said. Warren H. Phillips...
...state of Alaska haven't been the same since. Competing companies who were about to pull out of the North Slope are renewing their efforts. The state government is talking about constructing a railroad and highway from Fairbanks, 390 miles away, to the North Slope fields. On Wall Street, Atlantic Richfield stock that was selling as low as 96 this year closed last week...
Amid widespread talk about a slower pace in the U.S. economy, corporate profits at the halfway mark of 1968 were remarkably handsome. According to a Wall Street Journal survey of 457 major corporations, second-quarter profits were up 10% from the same period of 1967. Largest gainer was the rubber industry, with earnings of nine companies bouncing...