Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Though the fastest-growing part of its business is industrial (e.g., nearly every package of Life Savers sold has a 5-in. Chicago Printed String tear-open tape), the company is developing new wrappings to titillate the giver. Sometimes they miss: last year a fancy line called "Gold, Frankincense and...
For months, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Dancer Nick Darvas has been high on bestseller lists (120,000 copies sold). Last week the New York attorney general threw the book at Darvas. His story, charged the state, is "unqualifiedly false." It could find "ascertainable...
State investigators granted that they had not been able to track down all of the dancer's brokerage accounts-and he had them in Manhattan, Panama and Switzerland-so he could have made all of the money he said he did. In one account alone, he reportedly made the...
Between Los Angeles and San Diego lies a vast tract of land that has changed little since it was bought as a ranch by James Irvine in 1864. Its 93,000 acres stretch from the Pacific across the coastal hills and into the Santa Ana Mountains, form an area six...
Last week Irvine Company President Charles S. Thomas, former Secretary of the Navy, announced plans to turn the ranch into the first fully planned U.S. metropolitan area, which he hopes will serve as a model for future planners. It will be complete with clusters of communities connected by green stretches...