Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply come in a smaller package." Barry's argument was directly disputed two days later before the same audience by Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance, who snapped: "How 'conventional' was the 'small' weapon over Hiroshima? The typical tactical weapon was several times its yield, and the nuclear firepower available to a single infantry division is hundreds of times the destructive force of the bombs which destroyed both Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...High Yield, Low Risk. Most stock issues are oversubscribed two or three times. Reason: banks are highly profitable, earning a yearly average of 9% of their capital, and many of the new ones break into the black within a year. Says Phoenix Millionarie David Murdock: "Bank stocks are among the best you can get. Very few banks ever fail, and that's more than you can say for most businesses...
...Gabor told it, "My cameraman was so overcome by Marlene's beauty that he asked if I thought she would mind being photographed. I told him to carry on." After the show, when it developed that Marlene did mind, Zsa Zsa was forced to yield the film. "All right, we'll give it to you," ran her stormy response. "What do you think he could do with it? He couldn't sell it for a peng...
Coveralls, No Show. But Pucci, who had started it all, was not about to yield the field. First to be bold, last to be undone by fellows who had followed the leader and left him behind, Pucci could only retreat or fight. In a virtuoso display of fashion theatrics, he chose to do both, for a starter wrapped two pretty Negro mannequins in hoods and long silk burnooses that whipped off, without warning, to show patches of scanty bikinis underneath...
...loans of U.S. commercial banks jumped from $150 billion to $157 billion in this year's first five months, and they are still climbing sharply. Much of the gain came in the kind of loans that bankers like most of all-consumer installment loans, which give them interest yields of 12% or more. The banks' consumer installment credit has increased by 13% in the past year, to $22 billion. At the same time, the amount of real estate loans, which yield more than 5%, has risen from $34 billion to $39 billion...