Word: woos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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British banks, notably the dominant Big Five, have long been exclusively middle-and upper-class institutions. Now anxious to woo the prospering workers, the banks welcomed a provision in the law that would allow workers to have their salaries credited directly to bank accounts. But they feared the prospect of everybody in Britain stampeding to the banks on Friday afternoon to cash their checks. "The banks would be overwhelmed if there were such a mad rush," says Barclays Bank Vice Chairman Ronald Thornton. Small trades men also disliked the idea of having to cash a flurry of checks, fear that...
...Gaulle himself had remained above the squabble, perhaps because Brazil fitted somewhere in his grand design. He had invited Goulart to visit Paris some time this year, and an emissary had recently reported back after a swing through Latin America that France, in need of new markets, should woo Brazil...
...gung to be like Gary Grant." It isn't easy to be like Gary Grant, especially for a kid from The Bronx, but Bernie Schwartz meant business. At 22 he changed his name to Tony Curtis and copped a one-line bit in a B movie. "Woo, woo!" was all he said, but the second they saw him a million bobby-soxers said the same. Tony was short (5 ft. 8 in.), dark and pretty. His hair was a mass of kiss curls, his lips were red and luscious, his front teeth twinkled like a Broadway marquee. Soon...
Shopping Around Asia. Commonwealth members have been busy lining up new trading partners ever since Britain began to woo the Common Market. Japan is this year expected to replace Britain as Australia's best customer. New Zealand is shopping around Asia for new markets. The African Commonwealth nations appear more concerned about dealing with fellow Africans than with their white Commonwealth brothers. Though world exports have increased 46% in the past eight years, export trade among the Commonwealth nations has risen only 17%. Instead of hoping that Britain would return to the fold, most Commonwealth businessmen hoped that Britain...
...strapping (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Alf Robens turned out to be the cleverest capitalist the British Labor Party ever produced. Recognizing that the Coal Board's marketing tactics were woefully weak, he opened a string of showrooms up and down the country to woo homeowners into using more coal for heating, and sent a staff of 200 technicians out to talk British industrialists into burning coal in their plants...