Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Companies use their foreign profits, plus depreciation funds stored up abroad and local borrowing, to finance most of their expansion abroad, thus do not further aggravate the dollar drain. General Motors, which will spend abroad 25% of the $1.25 billion it has set aside for expansion next year, calculates that...
Anxious to attract U.S. industry, many countries go out of their way to give U.S. firms special consideration. France's economic ministry promises government loans of up to 15% of the cost of a plant built in any of the country's depressed areas. What U.S. companies find...
For many a foot-weary U.S. Christmas shopper, much of the fun begins at home in disguising-and glamorizing-the surprises. Gift wrappings worth some $150 million will be bought to sheathe Christmas presents this year. Never has the U.S. family (which last Yuletide spent an average $3.17 on wrappings...
Palm Tree Christmas. Keeping up with the wrapping tastes of the Joneses, Chicago Printed String has found, depends on where the Joneses live. Southerners, who know few white Christmases, have no use for papers depicting snow scenes and jolly snowmen. Floridians like palm trees on their packages; New Englanders will...
Broadway plays often start wrapping fads. The King and I roused interest in wrappings with an Oriental motif. My Fair Lady brought Victorian wrappings out of designers' files. The company hopes to pick up something from Camelot.