Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skeptical about the chances for what FORTUNE calls a superboom. There will be no real boom, most of them agreed, until businessmen start spending vigorously on capital expansion-and that is unlikely to happen until the newly tightfisted U.S. consumer (TIME, July 21 et seq.) decides to open his wallet wider. The N.A.B.E.'s outgoing president, Dr. George Cline Smith, senior partner of the Manhattan economic consulting firm of MacKay-Shields Associates, blamed the international news for the consumer's timidity. Said Smith: "If the economy is going to take off for the expected highs, consumers are going...
...magnificent view of the Colorado River canyon and the surrounding Utah badlands. They had stopped on the highway to aid a fellow motorist. "Generator trouble." explained the swarthy stranger as he asked to borrow Boothroyd's flashlight. Then he produced a rifle and demanded money. Boothroyd threw his wallet-containing $250-to the ground, but Mrs. Sullivan angrily snatched up the wallet and turned to walk away. The bandit fired, and Mrs. Sullivan fell with a bullet in her brain. Then the murderer shot Boothroyd twice in the face. In the Volkswagen, Denise Sullivan tried to drive...
...plant, while turning down a Czech tractor deal. He spent, too, with caution. When a state governor begged $400,000 for a fisheries project, Quadros promised $80,000. "I was a governor myself, your excellency, and I sympathize. But I don't want to leave here with my wallet emptied...
...cruel world. A man slaps his friend on the back with one hand, steals his wallet with the other. Four young punks stone a kitten to death and, when the wardrobe men protest, beat them up and break their mirror. When the closet-horses lie down to rest, a watchman drives them away with a stick. Heads bowed, they carry their burden back to the beach and quietly disappear into...
Moran's biggest assets are an honest face and a folksy manner that send shivers up and down the stitching of many a wallet and purse. He is so effective that rival car dealers are driven to fury when they discover that their own relatives-even their mothers-are singing the praises of "that honest Mr. Moran." Brogue & Braggadocious. Though Moran's career as a dealer has not always encouraged a mother's unquestioning trust, his image as "that honest...