Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...near billionaire is U.S. Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng...
...which was good, but there is disap pointment because things are not as good as they were supposed to be." Disappointing Steel. The reasons for the disappointment in the economy's performance so far this year seem clear. The post-steel strike inventory buildup that began in the final months of 1959 was expected to last well into the middle of 1960. with the industry operating at near capacity. Instead, previous inventories turned out not to be as low as expected...
...Major Weakness. What many economists find most encouraging is that there is no single weak sector that threatens to pull the economy down. Inventory buying is expected to remain at the $5 billion level in the third quarter, and may rise in the final period. Says a top Administration economist: "That drag is behind us." Plant and equipment spending, although trimmed slightly, will still be 14% ahead of last year and close to the 1957 record of $37 billion. Federal highway spending under the federal aid program will double to $1.4 billion in the next three months; Government purchasing will...
...threatened to expand beyond control. Once, Perkins asked him to write a brief description of the hero's reaction to his father's death, and Wolfe came back within hours with thousands of words on the life history of the doctor who attended the father's final illness. Eventually, with Wolfe cursing and threatening, Perkins decided to take the manuscript away from him (it was packed in crates). Otherwise, Of Time and the River might never have been published...
Filling of final Study Lists in Memorial Hall...