Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...broken the 1954 high mark (of 85 hr. 23 min.) by rattling off about 1,000,000 words in no less than 125 hr. 31 min. And Lyndon Johnson, working furiously day and night to create a unified front and a workable bill, had to continue laboring within a complex framework made more difficult by his own presidential ambitions and by his desire to help his Southern friends retire gracefully from their lost cause. Most of Johnson's colleagues agreed, though, that when the U.S. Senate finally turns out its civil rights bill this year, the chief architect...
...TIME was printing no fewer than 21 editions at plants scattered from Bogotá to Manila, from Teheran to Stockholm. Thanks to air delivery, we were able to consolidate these into today's four international editions. A baffling complex of problems with distribution, censorship and currency restrictions almost smothered the venture in 1949, but as soon as the difficult decision to continue had been made, a steady growth toward today's circulation highs began...
...largest U.S. independent telephone system. An ex-professor of economics, hefty (5 ft. 10½ in., 194 Ibs.), round-faced Don Power, 60, stepped fresh into corporate management only nine years ago. Yet he has transformed a loose confederation of small telephone companies into a giant communications and manufacturing complex of 80,000 employees that serves more than 4,000,000 customers in rural and suburban U.S., where front-running Bell System does not reach, sells equipment to 4,000 other independent phone companies. Last week General Telephone got its 1959 report card-and for the first time made...
...future. It is working on outer space research, techniques for using telephony in transmitting business data, electronic brains to direct a nationwide telephone system. It still uses the Bell System's long distance lines to link its subsidiaries, but Don Power has rid the company of its inferiority complex. Since he took over, the company's total assets have increased fivefold, its sales and revenue twelvefold. This year General plans to spend a record $275 million in capital investment, will soon float new stock, its biggest financing ever, to raise the cash. Most pleasing of all, General...
...those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built for Neckermann on a swamp on Frankfurt's outskirts, the complex covers some ten city blocks, contains one of Europe's largest buildings...